randibear
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Well shoot....
Im off to jus sit and read today. Its football on sunday. Luckily I made roast and chili last week so im good there.
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lax mom
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Yeah, it's way too cold to be outside tonight. I'm in the SE and even here it's gonna be frigidly cold. Supposed to be a windchill of -23 tomorrow night...and that's not even up north!!!
I wonder if you're confusing it with NH's decision not to participate in Medicaid expansion, which would have been necessary to set up a state level exchange.
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kam
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I had Blue Cross/Blue Shield when I was working and came down sick.
It took me 18 months to finally get a dx.
I was not able to afford Cobra.
Blue Cross/Blue Shield seemed to have their doctor's working out of a very small tool box.
I don't know if I had run into a lyme literate doctor while I still had insurance if it would have helped or not.
I do know that I was ony reimbursed $20 for the Igenex Test.
I was hoping to see more posts on people who had actually needed the ACA and how things went for them when they signed up.
I know many in the small town I lived in were small business owners and were not able to afford insurance for their families back in 2001 when I first started learning a bit more about health care due to my health going south big time.
Since I no longer live in that town, I don't know if they were helped or not by ACA.
I also knew others who were not able to get insurance due to a pr existing condition
A concern I had when my health went south. At that time, I thought it was tempary and I would be back to work.
Typing with eyes closed , laing in bed.
There is buzz here at the apartment complex I live in for senior citizens and the disabled about changes in insurance.
There was a meeting a while back on the subject and another on Thursday by someone else.
Best I can figure thees people are in business to help peole decide what insurance plans to get and what things they can get help with.
I have sent emails to both businesses.
They did help me to know that I should be covered with prescription needs at a time when I thought I wasn't covered and had paid out of pocket.
The pharmacy re imbursed me thankfully...pharmacy was also going thru new ownership with new help so things got a bit confusing for a while then pharmacy closed down.
I am still confused about it all. If health was doing well enough I would go to the meeting but health is not doing well enough.
I am concerned about coming up with the funds needed that medicare doesn't pay for and would like a second insruance.
But, since the people I contacted have not replied to my emails I assume it is because I don't have the insomce to pay out of pocket for a second insurance.
OK need to stop. This is making my brain worse.
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kam
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Another thing I learned when I moved from CA to AZ is that I was getting 40 hours a week with caregiver service whiel living in CA.
When I moved to AZ, I was given 4 hours a month caregiver service.
I thought they would be the same in both states. Wrong.
Income went down to $500 a month to when I moved across state lines.
I don't recall what it was in CA.
I know this topic is supposed to be on ACA but it has opened the window to health coverage in general.
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kam
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There is a post on another web site from a lady who wants to move from the San Diego area in CA as she is not getting the caregiver help needed.
She doesn't have lyme disease. I think she has a form of CP.
Another condition that varies a lot
She wanted to know which states were more helpful and provide more caregiver services.
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lpkayak
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Not nh
I m pretty sure the aca will help with basic health care but not lyme. Around here the new tx for a tickbite is one doxy one time. And if you dont have. A bullseye you have to fight for that
If you break an arm youre all set. And probably a minimal ckup once a year. They will probably happily give you statins and steroids and psyc meds.
There is value in getting the basics...but really. If we have to fight so hard for tx it will not become the norm soon
Again...there is value-if your gall bladder goes or your thyroid tests low youll probably get tx. Not armour-synthroid...
Kam i think you are smart to research what states give more basic help...but moving to an area where there is an llmd is risky. It would cost a lot of time an energy and you could not count on the llmd staying in business unless it is one that is really expensive cash only. Also the tx they prescribe are not covered
I do think you should look for a better place for general care...but lyme care is a wild card
I have no first hand experience with any of this but have seen things happen-both good and bad to ppl i know
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nefferdun
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Stir things up randibear!
I got medicare a couple of years ago. It hasn't covered any lyme treatment yet except the tests the infectious disease doctor did, which were pretty useless.
What it DOES cover though is a therapist! I mean the mental emotional kind. This can drive you nuts and when you add in the trauma of life itself, it helps to have someone else on your side.
SO maybe if you all get Obamacare and go to therapists, it will be so expensive they will see that just paying our doctors bills is a cheaper alternative.
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SO maybe if you all get Obamacare and go to therapists, it will be so expensive they will see that just paying our doctors bills is a cheaper alternative.
- Good point!
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