skidmarked underwear primitive having pains

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6285072

Oh my.

The skidmarked underwear primitive, the older middle-aged farm wife from eastern Iowa, who said about two years ago that thuggery in place of political discourse was good, and that she'd like to see more of it:

Skidmore  (1000+ posts)        Wed Aug-12-09 12:38 PM
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I've had chest pains on my right side since Saturday....not localized to any one place more than that. Hurts. Wouldn't get better. Still hurts. Agonized over whether to go to the doctor, and we have insurance. I was afraid that if I went and they didn't find anytbing, I would be penalized. I was afraid that if I went and it was something serious, I would be penalized. I caved today because I was scared and went to the doctor. I just came back from the doctor office with a diagnosis of pleurisy probably triggered by seasonal allergies, and a feeling of relief. My designated doctor is not there today so I saw the person who was available. I hope we are not penalized for that.

I cannot tell you how much I hate insurance companies and dealing with them. I'm lucky to have insurance now. My husband carries a family plan through his job. Otherwise we couldn't afford it. Nor could we afford the fees the doctors charge. $75 for 10 minutes. My husband woud have to work 3 hours to cover that 10 minutes without insurance, but then our charges would probably be on a higher scale if we were uninsured.

I'm still scared. If healthcare reform, particularly better regulation of the insurance industry doesn't take place, and we lose our insurance when he retires or whatever, we will be in a world of hurt. I need one medication to live, and I must have annual checkins with the oncologist to even get the prescription. I don't want to be in perpetual debt to the medical industry, any facet of it.

The defrocked warped primitive:

Warpy  (1000+ posts)        Wed Aug-12-09 12:48 PM
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8. You especially don't want to find out it's a chronic illness because that can cause you to be labeled uninsurable and you can lose all hope of getting coverage for the rest of your life.

For profit health insurance is evil. There is no other word for it.

The bowel movement primitive:

blm  (1000+ posts)     Wed Aug-12-09 12:42 PM
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3. Sorry to hear that, Skidmore....I have had recurring pleurisy since late70s - it HURTS!

Fortunately for me it hasn't flared in 4 years....knock on wood.

I hear ya loud and clear on the fear factor re insurance company's reaction to every medical scare we go through.

The dumb lackey primitive, from Kentucky, who trashed the blue senator from Nebraska, who doesn't give an excresence about what a Kentuckian thinks of him, because Kentuckians don't vote in Nebraska:

loyalkydem  (821 posts)        Wed Aug-12-09 12:49 PM
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9. I also feel for you

I hate going to the doctor but sometimes I have no choice and I always worry if medicare will approve what I need.

Skidmore  (1000+ posts)        Wed Aug-12-09 01:15 PM
Response to Reply #17
 
19. People are self rationing or going without care, and I believe that it is a very widespread practice

The last thing on earth I want is some chronic health condition requiring me to have loads of medications over the rest of my lifetime. Fortunately, I only take one medication now, but it is essential to my survival.

I don't know what we would do if we were in my aunt and uncles shoes, both elderly and each has an upper kitchen cabinet devoted to their prescriptions. Sometimes I wonder if most of their health problems aren't primarily due to the pharmaceuticals that their specialists put in them.

But see, primitives like those health problems, where physicians put all sorts of pharmaceuticals into them.

[jukin]

loyalkydem  (821 posts)        Wed Aug-12-09 12:49 PM
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9. I also feel for you

I hate going to the doctor but sometimes I have no choice and I always worry if medicare will approve what I need.

Clearly obumblecare will make approvals more frequently as they cut $500 billion out of medicare.

[AllosaursRus]

Since when do you get penalized for healthcare??? The only insurance I know of that will "penalize" you, is auto! And even that, is only if you're a complete tool and cause an accident!

Anyone know what this asshat is talking about?

[Flame]

Since when do you get penalized for healthcare??? The only insurance I know of that will "penalize" you, is auto! And even that, is only if you're a complete tool and cause an accident!

Anyone know what this asshat is talking about?

That was my question, too.  Homeowners is another one that "penalizes" you for making a claim, but I've never heard of health insurance doing that.

[thundley4]

That was my question, too.  Homeowners is another one that "penalizes" you for making a claim, but I've never heard of health insurance doing that.

I had heard that a guy was laid off from where I work, but that was before I started. He had a child that had some congenital defect that was racking up medical bills. He ended up suing the company and having his families health insurance paid for life.

[Wineslob]

Skidmore  (1000+ posts)        Wed Aug-12-09 12:38 PM
Original message
 
I've had chest pains on my right side since Saturday....not localized to any one place more than that. Hurts. Wouldn't get better. Still hurts. Agonized over whether to go to the doctor, and we have insurance. I was afraid that if I went and they didn't find anytbing, I would be penalized. I was afraid that if I went and it was something serious, I would be penalized. I caved today because I was scared and went to the doctor. I just came back from the doctor office with a diagnosis of pleurisy probably triggered by seasonal allergies, and a feeling of relief. My designated doctor is not there today so I saw the person who was available. I hope we are not penalized for that.

I cannot tell you how much I hate insurance companies and dealing with them. I'm lucky to have insurance now. My husband carries a family plan through his job. Otherwise we couldn't afford it. Nor could we afford the fees the doctors charge. $75 for 10 minutes. My husband woud have to work 3 hours to cover that 10 minutes without insurance, but then our charges would probably be on a higher scale if we were uninsured.

I'm still scared. If healthcare reform, particularly better regulation of the insurance industry doesn't take place, and we lose our insurance when he retires or whatever, we will be in a world of hurt. I need one medication to live, and I must have annual checkins with the oncologist to even get the prescription. I don't want to be in perpetual debt to the medical industry, any facet of it.

Seriously, seriously, too stupid to live. 

Huge WTF???????????

[vesta111]

I had heard that a guy was laid off from where I work, but that was before I started. He had a child that had some congenital defect that was racking up medical bills. He ended up suing the company and having his families health insurance paid for life.

How on EARTH did that happen,?

There has to be a very interesting story behind that story---Sounds like an Urban Myth to me.

[franksolich]

Seriously, seriously, too stupid to live. 

Huge WTF???????????

One has to understand where the skidmarked underwear primitive's coming from.

She's a growing-old farm wife in eastern Iowa, once afflicted with cancer.

From reading her comments the past several years, she strikes one as being a woman who had many expectations of life, but life turned out differently from those expectations. 

Rather than accepting the way life is (as compared with the way the skidmarked underwear primitive wishes life had been), or taking some steps to change life steering in a direction more closely to what she expected of life, the skidmarked underwear primitive just gave up and sat back in her chair at the oilcloth-covered table in the kitchen of the farmhouse, and felt sorry for herself, sorry that life didn't come up to her expectations.

It's sad, but personally, I couldn't give a shit about her and her problems, after she commented a couple of years ago that thuggery in politics was a good thing, and she wished she saw more of it.