Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Response to the news of Charlie's demise was heartwarming...

Let me explain, I received so many sympathy emails this morning I don’t recall the last time that happened in response to anything! And I just want each and every one of you who felt the need to respond to a creature’s death that you may or may not have known, but were sensitive enough to write with such tenderness and caring, it was very thoughtful of you all, and thank you.

The rest of our day today was uneventful in the truest sense of the meaning of the word, mundane.

Tonight though, on the news I heard something that was a wee bit disturbing to me it was that people who use the paid ambulance/EMS services are not paying their bills even with Medicare, who should be doing it for them. Well, I’ll be, since Hubby and I were both taken by ambulance to the hospital last April within weeks of one another and since the bill added to our other hospital related bills was quite high, more than $1200 for the two of us for just those two ambulance rides, adding into all those other bills we have been paying it off monthly since receiving the first bill last June. At the time Hubby’s Medicare coverage was not complete, (only part A but as of this summer he will have A and B as of July, which will cost over one hundred dollars more a month, a reduction of social security income) and I have none at all! But we have been paying those ambulances bills off in spite of that all these months!
People it is zero interest on medical bills so pay them!
We are not wealthy and until the pre-existing insurance comes around for me in 2014 (I will be 64 by then and probably already on Medicare at age 62?) I am currently uninsurable, and we have been paying monthly all they say we owe, including my January eye surgery. Gone are the days of taking health for granted and not worrying about getting sicker and needing hospitalization for my MS or whatever, anyone who says that black cloud does not follow you constantly is in denial.
You see I am an in-between, not poor enough for financial aid and not old enough for Medicare.

Back to the ambulance dilemma; I really bet though that some just cannot pay at all, and the news had the not so nice way of putting it that is why the more financially insurance secure people would end up paying for those have nots with receiving higher premiums! Well, folks that is why national health insurance is not such a BAD IDEA, got it?
It divvies up the cost of the pie more evenly for all people.
Feeling it in the pocketbook might be what it takes before you holdouts to realize that.
Compassion is what is needed we all need to think of the other guy or girl’s ills as if they were your own.
Sorry about my redundancy but I feel very strongly about this situation, you see not long ago we were the haves, and now we are the have-nots…only speaking health insurance wise thankfully and only for me not Hubby but it still stings just the same! In every other way I cannot complain we are extremely fortunate.

Good night to all and to all count those blessings and we will too!

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