Someone in my family, although enrolled in what appears to be HMO_at least as far as I know it is what could be considered a complete medical plan_as well as having Medicare, does not have enough money for the co-payments, which appear to be incrementing now, as well as suddenly having to pay almost three times more for Albuterol pump cans than she was five or six months ago.
At some point years back she did have Medicaid. Years went by and she re-aplied. And apparently through negligence from social worker, was kept waiting for six whole months, and there was such a confusion as to whether she qualified or not. In the meantime then she spent hundreds of dollars, apparently unecessarily, simply because she had not wanted to buy the generic brands. Today she's in great need, and although monthly government income is pretty low and only supplements her husband's low Social Security payments which it's around 650 dollars or less, it's even extremely hard to qualify her for foodstamps.
2007-09-13
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