Dan, I truly hope you find someone who listens and can help you find a solution. Hang in there. You've come this far; don't give up hope now. (Easy for me to say.)
Thanks, but to keep things clear, my health insurance was suspended/terminated due to my inability to make premium payments. As a retiree of the state (the classification I fall under due to extended medical/disability status), I received a continuation of benefits, sort of a retiree COBRA. However, I don't get all that much through SS Disability, so it's either pay for food or pay for the premium, and all the other bills. I "make" almost $100 over the cut-off for the Medicaid equivalent. I may not even be able to pay for the Obamacare equivalent. It certainly won't have all of the coverage I would have otherwise. The co-payments and deductibles are much higher.
Right now, I have a couple of people at the local Cancer Center looking into things. There's nothing for me to do right now except making up my mind not to get upset. From my research the past day, I believe the proverbial fix is in with the government take-over. The "overhaul" of the medical insurance system is not changing the cost of coverage, it is merely taking us all into a single-payer system, which sounds good but really isn't. Why else would such a Rube Goldbergian scheme be subsumed into the IRS and not the HHS? There's nothing medical or even affordable about the ACA/Obamacare. At least the insurance companies hire RNs to review cases. Granted, the insurance companies are in business to make money, but the IRS hired more accountants and auditors. There's nothing medical about that.
I may sound heretical and particularly if I were in Hollywood, but I never have and never will trust any politician, especially if they say that they are there to help. They are there to help themselves. Why else do they stay there for a lifetime and come out in the end multi-millionaires suckling at the public trough? Never was it envisioned at the founding to have "professional" "lifetime" politicians who have never worked in the real world and have about as much in common with the work-a-day citizen as Queen Elizabeth has with the commoner. They have elevated themselves into the "royalty" of this country. I mean, what do we have to look forward to another Bush and another Clinton? What are we in dynastic China? (Maybe we are, after all China "owns" us anyway.) That's the best we can get? They are all in it for themselves and their cronies and their patrons, not for the average schmoe. I agree with Chomsky that there aren't two major parties, just one. Both want to get us to a one-world government, one slower and one faster, but the end-point is the same.
