Two days is all I have left for health care insurance. I saw my 26th birthday two days ago. And Friday is the last day of August. The last day my mom's employers can legally cover my insurance.
I have visited one doctor or another approximately forty times in the last six months. I have fifteen pills prescribed per day, but two aerosol inhalers and one nasal allergy medicine.
I don't even want to imagine how much all that would cost me without insurance. I'm already spending about $200 every month in copays alone.
And I have a pre-existing condition.. Who would want to cover me? Except Cobra, which is going to charge me $600 a month, plus copays. I barely make $600 a month (well, I did just pick up a second job, which means I make a little more. But even with those two paychecks combined, I couldn't afford insurance, rent, utilities, food.)
I went to Human Services yesterday to apply for Medi-Cal. There's something about that place is that very 4th floor Pawnee City Hall. People step inside and are automatically in "bitch" mode. Or in some cases "white trash" mode. Honestly, I think I was the only Causasian person there who doesn't live in a motor home. I'm not saying that to be mean. There were really only about three or four Caucasians there, and they all looked like they'd just stepped off the set of My Name Is Earl.
It was an interesting experience.
I've never been this stressed out before. I'm including moving to Hawaii without a single friend within 2000 miles, flying to Thailand by myself with no way to contact anyone and without speaking a word of the language, and defending my Master's thesis.
I am trying really hard to not let me freak me out too much. There really isn't anything else I can do. I'm 26 and the insurance cannot cover me. I've applied for multiple full time positions, and it's possible I will soon have a full time job with benefits, but who knows, with this economy? I've appealed to Kaiser, but no word from them. And I've applied for Medi-Cal. So I have dozens of lines cast in the sea, but no fish are biting.
I guess I've gotta find a juicier worm.
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