Reply #10: been through medical bankruptcy

[kineneb]

Hubby has End Stage Renal Disease (fancy name for kidney failure) and is on dialysis. We went through bureaucratic hell before he was declared disabled. All we qualified for was a low-income program that has a $934 income cutoff. Above that one pays "share-of-cost" down to that income. Now he is on Medicare/Medicaid, but I still have to be on the other program, and my share-of-cost is $280 per month . This comes out of his SSDI payment of ~$1200/mo.

We are fortunate to live where there are a lot of low-income/senior health programs, so I am at least able to see a dentist, yearly. But my medications have to be paid out-of-pocket, so I have to get some as samples from my doctors. Otherwise, I would be writing from a psych ward.

Something is definitely wrong.