Hi there @TunedOut

Thanks so much for your reply. I totally agree with you on every thing that you’ve written about. I’ve got a friend in the US who’s husband is a Veteran on disability too. They find everything really tough to deal with especially the VA office.

As you both served in the military you should be treated a whole lot better after what you sacrificed for your country. I’m glad that you finally got some health care in the end. I do know that in the US if people can’t afford health care life can be really hard for them which isn’t right at all.

At least we do have Medicare which covers all Australians whom can’t afford private health insurance. However we have some politicians here that to save money want us not to have universal cover for everybody. As you can imagine just the thought of this frightens so many of us. But in the end I don’t think it will happen because they’d lose too many votes then. Lol

Yeah I know what you mean when you say that unemployment may be low there but the minimum wage in the US is a lot lower than here which is really unfair imho. Our Govt fiddle with the figures too to make things sound better than they are.

I’m so sorry to hear that because of economics you tried to take your own life but I’m really glad that you survived especially for your children. That must have been really tough and makes me realise that it can be such a tragic thing to do. Life can be very hard for some of us and not for others.

We both used to have good Govt jobs too until I became really sick and kept on getting more diagnoses year after year. So we’ve gone down from being middle class that’s for sure. We don’t want to lose our house either? But it’s not the repayments that are the problem. It’s the cost of living like food & utilities. Then forever paying to fix our old car & call the plumber out every 4 months or so as we’ve got old pipes.

My husband is on a Carers pension and I’m on Disability but it’s never enough to cover all the bills and live decently. I’m sure that we’ll get by because we always do. In Australia we are lucky I guess to have the social welfare system that we have. As some countries don’t at all as you probably know.

Your right we all have to keep on writing to various Govt departments/officials to make them aware of our plight. Too many western societies like us in Australia, NZ, the US, the UK & many countries in Europe are all having the same problems. Mental health is increasing and so is poverty. I sometimes don’t know what it will take to make all our Govt’s “wake up” to the needs of their people.

Thanks so much for your reply and your support because it means a lot to me, it truly does. Don’t worry I’ll be ok it’s just great to be able to write to others that understand how I feel. I hope that everything keeps on getting better for you and your family too because you really deserve it!

Thanks again,

Take Care,

From Bowie’sLady