Over seven million people in California are waking up today with no health insurance.
Their options are either stay well and roll the dice, if they get sick wait until they are on deaths door and use emergency room services which they pay the “retail rate” and may not pay the bill, or use welfare based services where health care is rationed and wait times are the name of the game.
California health care for uninsured Californians is broken.
This morning I go to the county to wait for about an hour with other impoverished Californians. I propose to you that being impoverished includes not having health insurance. The purpose is to get into a system called APD and see what the welfare based system has to offer. So far all I can see is that APD is an intervention for drug and alcohol. If that is the case, this case worker is way off base as I do not drink, and I do not use drugs. I have an iron toxicity level that kills nerves cells, and can kill the liver, and irritates bowel and brain cells.
I will let everyone know later today what the system in California has to offer which thus far I am very suspicious of.
Again if I lived in Massachusetts, I would already have health insurance at no cost to me and appointments made and achieved. The cost in California for me with a $5000 deductible (they do not pay until I pay out of pocket $5000) PPO plan is $166 per month with $40 copay. That is what 7 million people in California woke up today to with their health insurance plans.
So until later today.......
It is now later today and I have health insurance. A wonderful over worked lady in the county financial services, looked over my bank statements and my taxes for last year. From that they identify what the copay will be. In order to have no copay, one has to be homeless. So as far as comparison to the Massachusetts system of 100% of FPL (Federal Poverty Level)having no copay and no monthly cost there is no real equivalent other than complete destitution. The other issues are being only able to see the County doctors. According to Dr. Dean Edell, the care seen in county services is far and above the services in the private sector for terminal or close to terminal patients. Therefore the issue of only seeing county doctors almost becomes moot. My health care insurance is good for a year. I have 2 to 3 weeks to wait now to see the specialists. That time rationing cannot be helped, the county is not prepared for the onslaught of people in the coming years. They are completely understaffed and overworked and it will only get worse with time as 2014 approaches.
Again it is my imperative to seek out a legislator and to lobby for a bill passage that can reach the Governors desk this year and sign into law for 2012 a new health care insurance for California that is equivalent to the Massachusetts system and tweaked as needed to meet inclusively what the counties currently have in place.
Again it takes money to lobby. We have 19 million people in the State that are underemployed and under-insured to the point of unemployed and no insurance. If everyone looked at my blog and hit the donate button and contributed $1.00 each think what that could lobby.I do not like the lobby system but to beat them you have to join them. I want to raise enough capital to pay my meager needs of food lodging and transportation up to Sacramento and lobby with a little above the going rate to ensure a quality bill and successful passage to the Governors desk. That takes money so please spread the word around and please contribute what you can. Once I reach a reasonable amount in my PayPal account I will transfer that into my Fidelity account and purchase gas food and lodging to start this process off in Sacramento.
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Until tomorrow, The California People whom I love.
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