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medical coverage
Wed, 02/28/2007 - 11:25Topic: Insurance Issues
My name is Krystle and my 19 yr old sister has Epilepsy and is also deaf in one ear. She was first diagnosed when she was 16. We were raised by our grandparents since we were very young. My grandparents have been living on Social Security since both have been unable to work. When Kayla (my sister) turned 18 her Social Security checks stopped coming and then when she turned 19 her Medical Card was cut off. My grandmother has applied and appealed to Social Security for them to declare her disabled so she can continue to receive the Medical Card. They have denied her time and time again. Saying she can work and make up to $800.00 a month and live off of that...well not only will $800.00 not cover all of her prescription and medical costs monthly how will she be able to get a job when nobody wants to hire a risk liablity. My sister has seizures quite often and they are Grand Mal seizures (sorry if my spelling is off) She had a job previous to her having seizures. She lost the job because it was in a restraunt. Not only did she have a hard time hearing the customers the owners were scared she was going to have a seizure and drop something so ultimently they let her go. The Epilepsy Foundation will pay for one 30 day supply of medicine for just one prescription but other than that when my sister runs out of medicine not only is there no money to pay for the prescriptions what if she has a seizure and needs to go to the hospital? Social Security did decide that they will allow her to get BIRTH CONTROL for FREE!!! Which is outragous!! They are more concerned about controlling the population then helping this young girl receive the medical attention and medicine that she absolutley needs. What are other ways we can get help with medical and prescription costs?
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Re: medical coverage
Submitted by medicineagle01 on Thu, 2007-09-13 - 15:13
My son is in the same predicament as your sister, He is 22 and had a tree limb fall on his head from 85 ft in the air. After surgery and other treatments we discovered that the man he worked for had no workmans comp, no insurance or way of paying for his medical. Now my son has no home, no car, no insurance, he applied for medicaid to help with treatment but they turned him down.We have also looked into the new access tennessee insurance that bredison started, being he is high risk the premiums are over 600.00 a month and do not even cover his meds.(and this is supposed to be low cost medical for uninsurable!!!) I am disabled and my husband is the only source of income( and very little after 2 heart attacks) and we have a hard time scraping money for medication for his seisures that started 3 months ago. If any one finds an insurance that will cover even maintanaince its going to be costly.
Re: medical coverage
Submitted by sebetz1979 on Tue, 2007-04-10 - 14:35
well, i had something similar happen to me, kinda. well, i had health insurance in NY since i was born, but when i moved to NH my hubby lost it because he had quit his job to move. well, his new job did not offer health insurance so i was out of luck. I am taking trileptal and found out through my nuero that the company that makes it, novartis, has a plan were if you qualify you can get your perscriptions for free. I qualified b/c my hubby doesnt make alot so now istead of having to pay almost $400/month for my meds i get them for free. I still do not have health insurance and have to pay for my visits out of pocket b/c we dont qualify so help with those through the hospital which my dr works out of! But still, you may want to look into the manufacturer of her meds and see if they have some kind of assistance prgoram or if you want let me know what meds they are and i could help!! ~Susan