Re: Ping Kilikini

MaryL wrote:
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Christina Websell wrote:
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I hope you don't mind, but I posted the email about your problem on
alt.support.cancer a group that has been great about giving me
support and information. I'm hoping that they have some sort of
idea that can help you. Have you tried medicaid?

I am so appalled by kili's situation. It's absolutely disgusting
that there are doctors out there who could help her but choose not
to because she cannot pay "up front."
They deserve to rot in hell.
Choosing to be a doctor means you want to help sick people. doesn't
it? Not to line your pocket so you can have have posh houses and
cars. Ahhh, don't start me on this.

Tweed

I don't think it's up to the doctors themselves. They are employed
by the hospital, after all. And if it's the hospital's policy to
demand money up front for surgeries, there's probably not much an
individual doctor can do about that. It's not like they could just
perform the surgery in their own home in the evening or something.
The whole situation sickens me. From what I gather, Kili doesn't
qualify for Medicare because she doesn't have children.
Britta


Medicaid and other forms of public assistance are means-tested, and people
below certain income levels are eligible for Medicaid. The
combination leaves a large number of people completely without
medical resources. It is a hard-hearted policy, and I think it is
unforgivable.

MaryL

Yes, except the Medicaid system is very unreasonable (and varies from state
to state even though the program receives federal funding). I had emergency
surgery back in 1993, the very day I was supposed to start a new job and
would have been *fully* covered by insurance from day one if I hadn't been
rushed off the the hospital instead. The woman in the hospital social
services office essentially told me later that because I didn't have
children I may as well not bother applying for Medicaid assistance. It was
her experience they would turn me down flat.

Jill


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