I finally received a new hip after having to wait for ten years of increasing pain and decreasing mobility for much the same reason.
As an electrician, I could no longer function. With sever arthritis you just cannot spend 8 hours a day climbing rafters or walking on cement slabs. I was forced by pain to seek a lower paying alternative for ten years. At the end, the economy crashed, I lost my retirement option ( rental property ) to foreclosure and had to file bankruptcy because the expense of trying to save my property from the banks broke me.
Had I “qualified” and received a new hip ten years ago I could have kept working at my job. I could have saved my property.
Instead I had to wait until I turned 65 in order to get Medicare and Social Security.
Many people who can’t work could if they had medical care that could fix the reason for their inability to work. How many others had to stop working due to a medical condition that could have been fixed if it were not for the expense?
November 3rd, 2011 on 10:11 am
I finally received a new hip after having to wait for ten years of increasing pain and decreasing mobility for much the same reason.
As an electrician, I could no longer function. With sever arthritis you just cannot spend 8 hours a day climbing rafters or walking on cement slabs. I was forced by pain to seek a lower paying alternative for ten years. At the end, the economy crashed, I lost my retirement option ( rental property ) to foreclosure and had to file bankruptcy because the expense of trying to save my property from the banks broke me.
Had I “qualified” and received a new hip ten years ago I could have kept working at my job. I could have saved my property.
Instead I had to wait until I turned 65 in order to get Medicare and Social Security.
Many people who can’t work could if they had medical care that could fix the reason for their inability to work. How many others had to stop working due to a medical condition that could have been fixed if it were not for the expense?