Date: 2005-02-06 06:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] kayt-arminta.livejournal.com
yeah see... i will never live in the states. i had a friend who had a broken arm for TWO WEEKS was unable to go to the hospital because he didn't have insurance, or money to pay for them to fix it, and cast it.

a society like that dosn't make me feel happy to live there. sorry, sad but true.

Date: 2005-02-07 03:48 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] leora.livejournal.com
You're kind of preaching to the choir here... I try not to rant about it too often, and in truth it's not that bad, but I've been curably blind for over two and a half years, because medicaid kicks in 2.5 years after disability is confirmed. And that's only if you worked enough before you became too sick to work to qualify for it. I'm lucky, and I do qualify. I'm also lucky that as far as I know the risk of delaying surgery hasn't made the blindness permanent, but it could have.

The unlucky in the US have it far, far worse.

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