why is it easier for some people to get approved with lesser problems then people who really need it?

Question

I have been fighting with ssi for almost three years now, at first i had only the two back surgerys, then in one year i had to have two more and now im facing a brain surgery this june, why is it the people who really seem to need it have to fight it for i have a friend who applied and his back has had no surgerys and is only screwed up a litttle but he has bi polar disease, it really doesnt seem fare, i would rather work to provide for my family for im a single mother of a nine year old but i cant even walk up a flight of stairs to get to the tub to bath without want to sit down and cry from the pain, and now the brain surgery which is cause by a arnold chari type 1 malformation of the brain, either my back or brain problem can cause me to become paralized, i have a lawyer but all i get is it could take up to two years to even get in to see a judge why is that its been a year and ive gone from a four pointed cane to walk to a wheelchair, i dont know what to due ?

Answer 1

I know what you mean. I hate to say this, but if you were an undocumented worker or alien, you would get the help you need. I saw on the news the other day a kid from mexico who parents drove here for help. Dont get me wrong, I feel for the kid. He was 7 or so and had a heart problem all his life and was in desperate need for a heart. Well, we (the city) placed him in a hospital and raised over $40,000.00 to help send him to another stats that has the best heart specialists. He was flown down there with his parents and was going to be on an organ list. If you know anything about oran lists, you know that takes months, even years to get a match...plus, you usually get put at the bottom of the list. Well, an update was made a few days ago, they kid got his heart and is doing great. His parents never worked a day in the US and are staying at a nice hotel, meals provided until the kid recovers. And then its back to Mexico. Funny, who is going to pay the hospital, doctors , nurses and medications used. We can do this for foreigners, but we cant help our own who deserve it and need it? Its sad.

Answer 2

I just don't know. But I sure think that health care ought to be a real campaign issue.