MIDDLE AGED WHITE MALES, SICK, NO YOUNG KIDS, NO JOB, NO INS.
My 51 now 52 had a BS event brought on by his boss refusing to let him go eat, which triggered a ER Heart Event, Heart pumping at 25%, can’t work, will never be able to work, has worked since 16. Was working 6 days 10 hrs a day. His son is a single 20. At Fast Food places because age plays a role in management, when jobs got to demanding jabs, he’d change jobs. Ate their crappy food, lived in a trailer, with his adult son, they shared rent and utilities. Cardio doing a Heart Cath on the 14th. Stent(s) or Bypass or both will be decoided then. Got handed a $25K hospital bill he’ll never be able to pay, they were told he had no health ins. Charity Church Health Center now partially pays for his Diabetic and Wrong heart med. Methodist won’t take, has to be Baptist. That Cardio switched him to a expensive heart drug. Lantus makes him feel like S. Ernesto is the new heart drug over $700 a month.
If things go wrong I’m the one making the decisions, I’ve already lost 2 children. Can’t handle a third.
Bless you GailA, you are doing yeomans work. To put you in a box with bums is offensive, along with others who sincerely need help and worked until they couldn’t anymore.