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In 2011 I was rear ended by someone texting at 80miles per hour in a 50mph speed zone.3Months later I had refused to file lawsuits on the person responsible.Lawyers had found she didn't have a pot to pee in and I see such things as nonsense.
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I was fired from a really crappy trucking company based in Lowell Arkansas.
I had endured months of abusive treatment from my dispatcher(good Ole bill A.And his buddies].
I found myself unemployed and for some reason not able to find a job for the first time in 25years.I ended up with my health insurance running out.My life insurance cancelled with 1million on it.
For the next 17months I lived as a homeless man with an education,profession as an over the road trainer for the new drivers of tractor trailers.My hobby and secondary education was Artificial intelligence.
I had no tickets.no chargeable accidents.I had no wants,warrants arrests,or anything that would legitimately deny my rehire.
I became ill and felt that I was going to die.That I would die.I went to the emergency room.
Doctors were more interested in how much money I had in my pocket.I think a group of hookers would have been more caring than the so called professionals I encountered.
The reason for Emergency room care was the following.I didn't have an address.I had a drivers license .That got me into an ER for treatment.Obama care would have been of no use as I would be a criminal without the ability to buy.The more things change the more they remain the same it seems.
The problem turned out to be gallbladder attack. Canned food is full of Mega amounts of salt and fats.That type of food is easiest to keep when a fridg is not available for the price involved.
It's literally a long term death sentence.. I was surviving with a time bomb inside ..insurance check and discharge followed after treatment ,pain killer and antibiotics were administered.
Shelter and Charities(God bless them for their kindness],use the castoffs and food they are donated and share with those such as myself that are inking out an existence.The food at shelters and soup kitchens are given by volunteers who are all heart normally.
The First Lady Michele Obama has served in soup kitchens in the past.Bless her for that kindness whether PR or heart felt.That food means another day of life for the many.Foodlink and other sources are dwindling from lack of donations.The food is what is available to homeless or anyone that wishes a modest meal with down on their luck high in spirits human beings.The last true hardcore survivors on this planet.
Many of those homeless folks are unable to obtain medical help.Obamacare will not help those people.In fact it will make them all into criminals owing money to the government they don't have to even feed themselves or get back into a life fit for humans.
For the 3 severe winters and wet steamy summers I survived with no arrests and no help from welfare.I showered and shaved regularly at the YMCA so I would not appear disheveled.It helped to get me into places that a homeless,unkept person would not be allowed.
My sister knew of a doctor that might help me.
I went one day when my health became more complicated to that family doctors office.I was greeted with a smile and told to fill out papers for my first visit.The mood was friendly and cordial till I handed in the papers.I sat in the waiting room filling out the papers for care.
The only thing looked at by the blond bimbo behind the window was the insurance blank.She said,"You did not fill out your insurance carrier".I replied "I don't have any, yet but social services.says I have to wait 45days,but they will back pay for 3months.......She cut me off, as she slid the window shut she said come back when u have $200 or insurance.I was obviously very sick and felt devastated .I knew I was ill.I could never have imagined just how bad it was.
Flash forward 3long suffering months:Same doctors office at my sisters urging.I was really ill by now.I went into the office and there to the same blonde bimbo[sorry, but I do hold grudges on uncaring airheads of either sex]sat there like a little princess.
She said fill out these papers,I do and fill in the insurance blank.I had finally obtained social services by using my sisters address.Many homeless folks find fake address,s just to get help.I was accused of being too honest by many.I hand the clipboard back.She smiles in an over whitened toothy smile.Have a seat and we will call next you.
WOW!!I feel privileged I am finally an excepted Human being worthy of treatment
Holy Cow[sorry,no disrespect 2 those worshipping cows].I managed to get another appointment and numerous tests.I even got another appointment.Talk about feeling special.I am finally up to human being standards by people who spend years learning to save lives and then have a callous blonde bimbo shooing patients away to die.Go home and no loss of sleep from them.
The next appointment was dramatic.I had a gallbladder attack in the waiting room now armed with insurance.The same blonde calmly sat there and ignored me as I sat holding my gut and asking for help.She opened the window and said,what is the problem.I thought I was having a heart attack.She said I can't get the doctor because he is out to lunch.For 1 hour with doctors offices all thru the building I waited in agony.The blonde secretary told me the doctor was out to lunch and she was not going to bother him.She closed the glass and went calmly back to her work.When the registered nurse finally came out at the urging of my sister,I was taken in and accessed.They rushed me to the ER again
.After about 50minutes of agony and a minimal examination by a nurse,
I was being wheeled out of the doctors office when the Doctor arrived and told me that the tests had bad news.I went out the door on a gurney once again to the ER..
Xrays ultrasonics,MRI scans.all the fluids and workings revealed.
After a night of medical probing in the ER,I returned to the doctors office.Same blonde bimbo behind the window.The glass slides open and she gives me the same lights on,nobody home look.
(I get the strange thought that in a different life she might have been called Bubbles the exotic dancer in the Boom Boom room)
.She says what do you need.I say I just need the doctor to finish telling me what he found out.I then got a very familiar qoute .She says,"sorry,Your insurance was canceled last night,unless u have $200OR INSURANCE.....I have no idea as to why but leave to explore the reason.
A glitch in insurance paperwork is found.
I had to wait for another month to finally see the doctor,I had been canceled by the social service worker because she did not know where I was living.I had left my new address and a phone # to reach me at. when I told the social service office about this problem I got a new worker.That Social Worker had simply not felt it was needed to process my pappers and kicked me out of the system.My insurance was reinstated.I could have died from a bureaucrats inability to process a verifiable application plainly written in printed form.
I was sent for more tests and referred to a neurologost later to a neurosurgeon.It was and is serious.
This story is personal. I rarely write about my personal life.There is far more important things to write about.That is till you realize that the current medical system is flawed to the point that people die everyday from bureacratic red tape death sentences.When you can not do better or are temporarily
down on your luck,The kind of crap I went through is minor compared with those passed up for cancer treatment or transplants or any other life saving process.People are sentenced to death every minute of every day in the most advanced country in the world.
The homeless period of my life ,was desperate and enlightening for me.All the stories that I heard happening to those folks that were not homeless, but on limited incomes.All treated in the same manner.With no dignity,no consideration,and basically as if you are the culture of untouchables found in India and other places.The insurance loophole will not be fixed by obama care.The folks that finally have insurance will pay through the orafice for the care they shoulf get anyway.Our Taxes would do a great deal more if they were used for things such as saving lives inastead of building machines to track and kill at 6000ft.Maybe we could at least try to build that fairytale place of Utopia.
The folks without Insurance in the future will be hunted by government for the inability to pay for insurance.
The medical services will not cover as it once was able to do.I am back to having no insurance now as my insurance company says that as of the first of the year they can not cover for insurance.
Social Service cant help because I am drawing retirement.That is unless I can pay about 700dollars a month for that insurance along with my own meds which are not covered.
I am told that I can purchase insurance from the Internet after "shopping around". The insurance lobbyist sure won that boondoggle over the American people.
Doctors don't follow the original oath they supposedly took when becoming Doctor's It is now more profitable to only see the folks that drive expensive cars and live on the lake in a big house.The insurance poor are also welcome.Just as long as there is cash in their bank account.If you die,well then you didn't have the money and that will decide who lives and who will die.Medical professionals and insurance companies cull out the undesirables unable to feed their lifestyles.
An axe murderer is probably the mindset,but The axe murderer doesn't get away with it for long. why should anyone?If a person has the expertise to save a life and refuses isn't that the same as intentionally killing them?
2days ago my sisters cat fell ill and we called all over the 2counties area looking for a veterinarian that would help a person on disability retirement to pay on time.The same deal as people apparently goes for animals.The cat was at the mercy of non feeling machines that only had concerns for how much money they were going to be able to make before the cat died.
The old vet we normally took the cat to had died of a heart attack.That vet was a kind hearted lady that would go out of her way to help u if you ask.She used natural medicines and was really the best one I have ever seen.I know she had a heart from her actions and how she died.Heart attack...We will miss her.
The final vet that we took her to .said the routine $200 or die.we said can u tell us what it looks like at least. not unless u pay.Can u say if the cat is treatable?not without the money.This lady could at least have a feeling for the animal.She said that the doctor wouldn't talk, see or have anything to do with us without money.We said that we didn't want the cat to suffer.Again......money first.Okay,what about putting her down?Tears in eyes.
$43or take it and bury it at home.We walk outside and talk.we manage to put 43dollars together and
return to the desk.we agreed to return in 3hours to pickup the carrier.Unlike the Vet we could see the suffering.We headed to the bank for money from an account I had.
We return after the vet secretary calls and leaves the following message in a sarcastic voice,"The doctor has said that he does not want you getting money that you probably don't have anyway and says don't bother to bring your other cat here.We don't want you to come back here.We had the money and were on our way back from the bank 15miles away.
When we arrived this woman ran out of the front door and handed our carrier to my sister.
Did u get my message.Yes we did .Well the doctor does not want you inside the office and said don't come back.We did put your kitty to sleep an hour ago.goodbye.She strutted but inside the building leaving us with 200dollars in hand,an mt carrier and memories of the beloved cat now murdered.
The same treatment for humans as for animals these days.As long as the systems are in place to allow the legal and authorized willing murder of living beings we are all responsible.Obamacare Will soon show us the wedge being devised to separate the population.Those able to obtain the finest care and those that fall victim to a death sentence from bureaucrats, insurance companies and doctors that value money in preference to a living being.I have a word for it I call it The Red Tape Death.When paperwork and cash mandate neglect that causes death.My oldest sister was a victim of this last year.
so I have a personal problem with this system.
The Hippocratic oath perhaps should be replaced by the updated hypocrite oath as follows:
Hippo critical oath regarding what I consider YOUR life is worth
We will make the most of our golf days even to the cost of life
life which we have figured into our own life as the cost of not being an elite
An elite with the power of life and death based on who is able to pay the most
This will in time leave only those with our values and the holy dollar
to support our lifestyle and promote our children into our elite lifestyle
other children and people have no real or significant life value beyond the money they posses
to the last dollar they can provide our lifestyle even onto their last dollar at the last moment
.we will sell their blood and use their body parts for our own specialized profit
We will charge them from the the moment of known conception
onto the final moment that we posses their carcass in our morgues as chattel for sale
we will put ourselves and our families in the elite circles and refrain from assisting,helping or
providing live saving procedures without maximum compensation taken unmindful of their suffering
The pain of the masses is of no consequences to those of our elite circles of life
we will extend the people lives as long as compensation is available,without cure
Cures are never to be offered when compensation can extend a lifetime of symptoms treatment
symptom treatment is the oil that will fuel our elegant lifestyles as judges who determine life and death of non elites
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so it shall be written and followed all the days of our lives and of ours
Yeah it is only a cat and me,But as I speak with folks contacting me,
it happens everyday in many places
.Compensation has replaced compassion in our society.
The old time doctors are pretty much gone to their rewards
to the big clinic where I truly hope they can enjoy paradise .if it pleases them.
Think about it folks.This will happen to you or your loved one soon.The Health Phoopah is a huge wave coming into the shore.Like a tsunamis it will recede to look harmless, then rush back in to engulf you as you are standing on the beach.
This is a cryptic and sinister article from my usual writings.It is an update from a past blog that I wrote.
After my ill health experience and the death of my father in a horrible nursing home.. My older sisters death from an insurance company denying a final cancer treatment. This caused her excruciating death...Even after her death
There are few medical professionals I have much respect for.With a couple exceptions more recently.
I received a letter from a lawyer a few days ago that was the gallblader surgeons rep.it was an offer to sue the insurance company on My behalf to recover $17000 for 15minute galbladder seurgury and requested that I sign it so that if the insurance company won the case I would agree to pay court costs and the $17000. Insurance covered and paid $498.....
I rest my case dear jury...
Again RJP
Stay Healthy my friends for the meat wagon awaits us in another time and place.
