Guaranteed Healthcare

Bonnie your story touched my heart.I started crying when I heard you speak about your situation and saw your white kitty cat in the picture. We have one just like that cat and he is adorable. My daughter and you have similar stories except she has only one doctor, a pain doctor, and who knows when he will give up on her too. You know pain doctors do that. I just posted my story about her to Oprah, but I have E-mailed her before with no results. My daughter has no health insuracnce either. She even has a doctor writing poison pen letters about her because she refused a dangerous and inappropriate medication in the hospital that he wanted to give her three years ago! How nuts is this? My daughter has a back injury from her father beating and a car accident. She also has a congenital birth defect that was discovered and brought to the surface by the beatings and car accident. The disease,Syrinx, splits the spinal cord into two pieces eventually,after a very long, slow and agonizingly painfull death. This is what she is going through. After her father illegally got her military health insurance cancelled in 2002, we went into a financial spin and are still spinning.I am an RN and it was then either buy my daughter's medicine or pay rent and I chose to ease her pain and bought the medicine. We were of course evicted. This has happened twice to us now which is why I stay in travel nursing. The irony is if I could get a place of my own I could make more money and afford to help Erika more,pay my bills, and go after her father legally and sue him for support. I am 60 years old , in debt up to my eyeballs, and cannot rent a place for us due to the bad credit. This could easily have gone to court and been resolved but I had no money thennor do I now and I work myself to death being an Travel nurse. I am trying to stay in one place. It has gotten impossible for us to move every three months with Erika as ill as she is which is what happens in travel nursing. it is much like the military in the moving part but at least one is assured of a roof over one's head in the military. My credit is ruined because of what her father did and we are all alone. I know and can see you have terrible problems too. I am glad that you ahve such a good friend to help you.I agree with her; that is what friends are for. Someone has got to help all of us before it is too late for most of us. My beautiful, talented daughter wants to die rather than stay in this pain. Any doctors that you or anyone might know that would not listen to the poison pen letters, would be welcomed although Erika has absolutely no trust in medical staff anymore. I am not far behind her. Please E-mail me if you just need someone to chat with. We have to support each other.

Sincerely,
Lynda Lutz, Mother, Caretaker, and RN
949-387-1761

I have had three marriages gone bad, and was left with mostly nothing each time due to greed, and lack of money to fight my legal battles. My children and myself were forced out of our home (bogus protection order) by a wicked step-father and his adult daughter (who didn't even live with us). We were each forced to go separate ways, homeless, (no family support either), no health insurance (it was illegally cancelled). This happened four 1/2 years ago (note the ages above, then). There was no help for us, we were on our own. My children and I still struggle trying to attain consistent work, daycare, typical single parenting nightmares, and coping with no health insurance. One of my daughters was given a medical discharge out of the Army, because they didn't want to pay for her other foot to have surgery (prev. surgery on one foot was done on diff. insurance). She was otherwise off to Iraq, soon after surgery. She was called into a higher authority office to be asked harshly why she is trying to bilk Uncle Sam for a foot surgery. She was just a kid who was put out of her home at 16 years old, by a bogus protection order then. She joined the Army at 17. She does have some issues medically, but what is she supposed to do then? She completed boot camp successfully. She tries to work multiple jobs now. She paid a large deductible to Cigna (only to be told they will not cover any of the medical issues she has)besides her foot. Isn't that why we go to the Doctor. To treat the medical issues we have?

I'm going to see the movie SICKO, it would behoove others to go also. Healthcare needs to be fixed somehow. I have seen way to many injustices in the legal system too!!!

Hey Bonnie!!!
Oh boy i am sorry about you had to go through horrible heartless situation yourself! I dont understand how dare Your governemnet allow it! What does gov stand for!!!! Not profit! hELP PEOPLES NEEDS. Also why cant U.N punish america governmnet! We live in crude world! my heart go to you! Take care !!!

I wonder if Ted Kennedy had regular health insurance would he be able to seek the medical care he has received the last few days? I think not. He would be left to die.

Insurance companies need to realize that chronically ill patients are much cheaper to care for in the home than in a hospital. You can get basically the same treatments at home and for waaaay less money than in a hospital. Family members and the even the patients themselves can be trained to perform basic nursing skills, and with a daily visit from a home health nurse, chronically ill patients can be more comfortable at home AND the insurance companies save money. Once a chronic illness is diagnosed, plans to get the pt out of the hospital and into a more cost effective place should be started. Hospitals are meant to be for care of the acute phases of illness/disease, not to house chronically ill patients indefinately.

Land of the free? You don't have much freedom when lying in a hospital bed all day. Where has all the tax money Bonnie has paid gone?

As a Canadian now living in the U.S. I've met more than one person with a medical condition they're unable to treat because they don't have the money.
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it s not acceptable that in a good structured country such things happens especialy when people are paying lot of taxes!

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This is so sad and it doesn't happen only in the US. In Romania, including in the capital Bucharest things like this happen daily unfortunately

Bonnie, you are a courageous woman!You had enough courage to talk about your life and desiese. Please, don't give up!Struggle!Though the life sometimes isn't fair, you still have a real friend.I know many people,who were left alone during their illness.I admire you and your friend so much. I wish I had such true one.THere were tears on my eyes, when I watched the video, and your friend was talking.Really-a friend in need s a friend indeed.

Melany T., online nursing graduate

If this is the plight of people in our country then it is a shame. I too have had a bad experience with an insurance company. I got accidental insurance from then but when it came to accident claims they never settled even part of the claims.

Shane