Ya know...I was thinking of lilMike's extraordinarily dismissive comment about people on Medicaid yesterday and their co-pays:
I remember how many of our patients, many of whom were dying of AIDS..others quads...others parents of very small children dying of this or that disease...and how many of them were so worried when the law started requiring a copay. Even $2 is tough to come by, especially when the same Medicaid law only paid to take care of that quad or AIDS patient or baby 25% of the time.
I remember patients begging me to send that nurse or aide to their home, promising to pay the copay as soon as they got their meager disability or whatever check.
But lilMike makes them sound like King Midas, waving away the peons.
I can never understand how people can be so uncaring and I believe I told lilMike yesterday that :
Yeah. I'm positive the lucky ones involved with his departure were the patients whom he looked so uncaringly down to.
as crazy as it seems, I've been in the position where $5 dollars is $500.. when you're not working, whether that be due to injury or lay off... and you're only getting $160 a week from UI or work comp... every single $1 counts.. there have been many days when I've spent every penny I had on something for dinner but knew a 'check' was coming the next day so it was ok.. and each and every time something happened where I needed $5 or something and simply didn't have it..and couldn't scrape together enough dimes/pennies or nickels to make it... it's embarrassing, but what can you do?
