Leave your walker or assistive device in the car,"
I heard on the Radio the other morning.
So continues the debate.
Here is my viewpoint about the "urgent" healthcare ruckus.
I sent to Senator Leahy and this is not a political statement.Hey, and Why would politicians dictate my healthcare system?
I am an RN Case Manager with almost 30 years experience working in Vermont between hospital, subacute, nursing home, insurance/HMO, long term care and home based care. That is in spite of low wages initially and tough conditions.I was laid off in 1996 because I was under 40 and the legislature protected the elder workers.I have recently lost over 40 thousand dollars in my retirement/savings, was denied disability insurance 3 days after my MS diagnosis and lost a bundle-on legal expenses from a court fight. But I never wrote you before that I recall.Maybe I was just stunned by circumstances.But I write you now, not angrily, but passionately, that you must not pass legislation that promises to fix the health care system in a thousand pages.My healthcare is pretty good now so please stop saying how broken it is. I agree with Medicaid waivers because I work for Vermont's Choices for Care. And yet I disagree with the generous financial loopholes where large assets are hidden and passed to others while I visit other starving or homeless Vermonters and pay very high taxes.Managed care is not something to be undertaken lightly. I worked for Kaiser and believed in our concepts but still it soured my stomach to turn down a circumcision because the child wasn't the right age.I have cared for Canadians who had to wait or spend their dollars in the US to get our level of care.And please support tort reform. Not only for health care. But also in cases like ours, where we lost so much.Finally, I must remain in my present health care support system. Do not change one thing. Add a catastrophic+preventive system for the poor. Vermont has an ideal system. I fear we will not be able to afford it much longer.Aren't you better off really studying what is working, who is happy, and who needs what? Then make incremental changes. Do not doubt we have the best health care system in the world. This means more to me than money or time. That is why I write today, not out of anger. My anger is gone since diagnosed with MS. I do not have the time for anger. Mary Gerdt RN
Hi Mary,
ReplyDeleteCame by to say hello and wish you well.
Hope you are having a good day.
Love,
Herrad
Hello Herrad,
ReplyDeleteThanks for stopping by. The Vermont weather is perfect today since a cool front came through.Hope you are doing OK. Have had a nice day.Love, Mary
Eloquently put and with so many well articulated points. I will be quoting this to many acquaintances who are fixated on the political aspect of this hotly debated subject. Continually, I have told them, "talk to people in the medical trenches:" the caregivers, patients, people in the communities who are trying to get their basic needs taken care of and who dont' have the time, or often the wherewithall, to critically assess political views. Thanks, Mary.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Anonymous.I hope to speak for many like myself paying high taxes and living expenses.Healthcare is a breaking point. The silent must speak because we must retain the most sacred Doctor Client relationship and healthcare team while making the most important decisions of our lives privately and confidentially.I am content with my medical supports.Thanks for stopping by.
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