saxman wrote on Dec 29th, 2009 at 3:07am:A few months ago I was offered a management position (a move up for me from sales) at a new company. The package that I accepted included a 6 month waiting period before being eligible for their health plan. My cycle started 2 months in.
I left behind my health coverage from previous job. I do take responsibility for not continuing it with cobra, but the costs in my case were roughly a 600% increase in premiums.
What is hitting home to me now is the inhumanity of a system that faced with two identical CH patients with K10 hits, one with means and the other without; that their horrible pain would be dealt with differently.
The cher with means, gets imitrex for example, with relief in minutes where the cher without can't afford imitrex and has to substitute cheaper meds that result in being in pain longer and more often.
Am I a commie now to think that when it comes to pain, wealthy or poor, insured or not, whatever technology might exist to ease suffering should be available equally and without prejudice!!
This notion, when thought of in terms of one isolated hit, doesn't seem to me so awful, but this inequity must exist now, right here in the US(in my case), for many CHers entire lives!!
I'm imagining the two sufferers on you tube with their k10s being treated with different meds while standing next to each other. The well dressed one showing relief in a few minutes, while the other in shabby clothes, treated with a cheaper less effective med, squirms and moans in agony for another 30 minutes.
Just a thought
Callico? You hope I didn't think you uncaring? (I'm not sure how do the the quote thing, but I think your quote was " I'm not sympathetic") I did read your next post as well.
I thought my language " I take responsibility" would have been clear enough to indicate that I wasn't seeking a handout, rather my post was intended to make the point that there were probably folks out there, that for whatever financial reasons were being prescribed less expensive, less effective treatments resulting in more hits!!!
This seems inhumane to me, regardless of politics.
As far as you paying for my health care is concerned; just know that if you were standing next to me and we were both being hit, I would share my abortive with you.