So I am at the pharmacy drive thru yesterday.....I had to pick up my blood pressure meds. Yes, I am only 30-something and I have high blood pressure. It runs in my family. My dad's side, and my younger sister has it too. What joy! What a thing to inherit! Why couldn't I have gotten his blue eyes instead?
Anyway! I go to this particular pharmacy every month and each time, yes, I have to pay out of the you-know-what because I don't have any insurance. I got divorced, like many fellow Americans, and like many others, I lost my medical insurance. So you say, why don't you get off your lazy bum and go get a job that offers health insurance? Why, that would be a wonderful thing, and I'd grab that offer up in a heartbeat. However, I find myself with a few obstacles:
1) The small-town in which I reside has very few options in the way of full-time occupations with benefits.
2) I have two school-age children (who are too old for daycare, yet too young to stay home alone) that I would have to find care for and pay out of my rear in child-care.
Now don't get me wrong, I am not complaining about the 'no insurance' thing. It really sucks, but hey, this is something that I choose at the moment. However, the woman at the pharmacy looks at me and asks "You don't have any insurance?" To which I reply, "NO".... I mean, honestly, she works at a pharmacy that is quite busy and I know she sees hundreds of people a day. Why would it be of surprise to her that I am uninsured? She just had a look about her when she inquired, that seemed to say "I just dont' believe that".
I did a little research (and I mean a little) and I found that there are millions of people out there with no healthcare coverage. It is a sad thing and like many other things (poverty, illness, etc.) it just can't be helped for some.
One day I hope to go back out into the workforce and get back a few things that I lost along the way of this bumpy road called life, but until then, this is the path I have chosen for now. I try my best to stay healthy and avoid any Dr. visits at all costs. However, sometimes that is just not possible, but I am making it.
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I'm surprised that the pharmacist was surprised. I work in an ER, for a public hospital, so we see plenty of uninsured people. It is becoming more of a norm than I think most people realize. I pay high premiums to my employer every month to insure my family. It's outrageous. If I had a full-time shift, the hospital would pay my premiums, but to move to the full-time shifts available, I would end up needing daycare, which is as bad or worse than paying the premiums and staying in the night shift I'm in. One big catch-22.
The Medicaid system is screwed up too. It's not there for the people that need it, and is there for the people that know how to work the system and abuse it.
Oh you've got me on a roll, Amy, I could spout off on this subject for a long while!
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