I don't even know where to start on the massive conglomeration of fail that is our current system.
I have a friend here who, thanks to the stimulus portion of unemployment insurance checks, now does NOT qualify for Family Health Plus. He would qualify for HealthyNY - which costs more than he can afford and for some fucked-up bullshit reason is NOT subject to Timothy's Law (which is potentially relevant for him, since he has fibromyalgia and a lot of meds used for fibromyalgia were originally psychmeds, which HealthyNY refuses to cover - so it all depends on just how stupid they get about that).
The alternative, while he's still in school, is to be on his parents' coverage, which a) requires someone in Kansas (where his parents live) to review every bit of non-emergency medical care he has in NY and b) may or may not be subject to getting yanked if his parents decide to continue being asshats about his being FTM.
And on a more personal note, if I'd decided to GO to the emergency room when I was 19 and twisted the hell out of my ankle instead of saying, "Screw this, they'll give me an ace bandage and Tylenol and charge me $50, and I have those at home! Besides, I need that $50 for a bus pass/new work-appropriate shoes/groceries for the next week/all of the above!" - maybe, just maybe, just possibly, I wouldn't have the chronic pain/mobility issues that I am now dealing with. I might not have gained quite as much weight over the 12 years since that happened. I might be less depressed and anxious because I can't move as well as I used to. Because maybe there *was* something else that could have been done, then.
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Date: 2009-08-12 01:55 am (UTC)I have a friend here who, thanks to the stimulus portion of unemployment insurance checks, now does NOT qualify for Family Health Plus. He would qualify for HealthyNY - which costs more than he can afford and for some fucked-up bullshit reason is NOT subject to Timothy's Law (which is potentially relevant for him, since he has fibromyalgia and a lot of meds used for fibromyalgia were originally psychmeds, which HealthyNY refuses to cover - so it all depends on just how stupid they get about that).
The alternative, while he's still in school, is to be on his parents' coverage, which a) requires someone in Kansas (where his parents live) to review every bit of non-emergency medical care he has in NY and b) may or may not be subject to getting yanked if his parents decide to continue being asshats about his being FTM.
And on a more personal note, if I'd decided to GO to the emergency room when I was 19 and twisted the hell out of my ankle instead of saying, "Screw this, they'll give me an ace bandage and Tylenol and charge me $50, and I have those at home! Besides, I need that $50 for a bus pass/new work-appropriate shoes/groceries for the next week/all of the above!" - maybe, just maybe, just possibly, I wouldn't have the chronic pain/mobility issues that I am now dealing with. I might not have gained quite as much weight over the 12 years since that happened. I might be less depressed and anxious because I can't move as well as I used to. Because maybe there *was* something else that could have been done, then.