I have strong opinions about health care and the current attempt to improve the US health care system. My roommate and I both have the same diagnosis of a mental illness. I was approved immediately for SSD and Medicaid partially because I think my family was well known and had money. My roommate was given SSD for three months because they said they were unsure about his recovery. He didn't recover and had to spend two years working that cost him his mental health, we appealed it and it took two years to finally get it. In this time he had to go to a free medical posting for the mentally ill and take cheap generic drugs and barely get to express any of his symptoms to anyone. They wanted him sedated. Now he is on Medicaid and has advocates for him and can take most any drug for his condition just as I can. But we are still putting out a lot of money for extra health care things, from vitamins, dental care products and everything else that is not covered by Medicaid.

In our state you can only have Medicaid if you are proven to be disabled, there is no way around it. Things don't make sense with it. You can have your eyes tested every year but new glasses only every four years. You can have cavities filled but no crowns on your teeth and only a few people want to accept Medicaid, and they don't always treat you fairly.

My roommate's family lives in abject poverty in California and has nothing but physical health problems. They get approved for surgeries based on indigent services, meaning they have no money and the hospital and doctor will take a loss for treating them so there is no incentive to help them. There is no preventive health care for the poor, and Americans are one of the few nations that are industrialized to say a person deserved to die because they suffered, or they were lead to suffer by their life choices. Ignorance is prevalent, and you would think living in a blue state, compared to a red state would help but it doesn't. California is one of the most liberal states in the union and they have cut all of the extra serrvices for the mentally ill like counseling and rehibilitation workers in your home, and even personal care assistants to help clean and cook.

A guy from this site in Indiana has severe physical and mental illness and his state has a waiting list for a personal care assistant and he has been on it for years. He is in a wheel chair and his family is frustrated they have to help him. Indiana's governor a Republican, tried to privitize the Medicaid program and the private company took the money and filed for bankcrupsty, so they have severe problems. Private companies are the problem. Not only have they stripped most workers of medical care, they routinely fire people not based on performance, but attitude.

America is/was the most spiritually drunk nation that has ever existed on Earth, size wise. It seems to be sobering up because of Obama, but it is ridiculous. My family that has money offers to take me on cruises in the Caribbean but gets angry at me when the car they gave me has a problem, like it was my fault. They are f*d up people, and I have tried real hard to live off SSD and it is difficult. I have lived in Canada, Ireland, and France, and all were far better for the health and happiness of their nations. America is a nightmare to me. I hate the politics and I hate the wealthy. I know in my mind the wealthy will be tortured by God for eternity when this party finally ends, and I am glad because they don't have a sober bone in their body.