Comments | snowgrouse: So it's come to this

snowgrouse

So it's come to this

May 12, 2016 15:17

Ok, fuck it. I've struggled with this situation for a couple of months now, and have tried turning to friends and my dad and have taken out a mini-loan, even, but I still haven't been able to dig myself out of all the costs acccrued by the new meds I've been on since the turn of the year. The trouble is, it's not covered by the Social Insurance ( Read more... )

help?

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cavefelem May 12 2016, 14:41:42 UTC

I donated a little bit. It's not much, but at least you can get some kitty litter or something.

Re: fucked up KELA - they keep astonishing me over and over by how convoluted and inefficient the system is. Case in point: I was prescribed an IUD for both effed-up periods AND contraception. This presented a choice: If the doctor wrote "for contraception" on it, KELA wouldn't compensate for any of it but I could have it installed at a contraception clinic for free. If the doctor wrote "for effed-up periods" on it, KELA would compensate for it but I would have needed to find a gyno to stick it in on my own (and pay for it, of course).

Since both the IUD itself and a visit to a private clinic are crazy expensive, how is someone who can't cough up an extra 100-200 e on the spot supposed to be able to afford the whole thing?

snowgrouse May 12 2016, 15:04:39 UTC

Crikey, you showed up literally as I was thinking of you just now o_O I was just thinking of the screwed-up signage on the new railway network around the Helsinki metropolitan area and how we both ended up on the wrong trains when going to the Amma event ( ... )

cavefelem May 12 2016, 16:43:46 UTC

The Nordic Welfare States(TM) and the Awesome Finnish Schools(TM). I swear journalists in the Anglosphere fap over both more than they do over porn. And both are actually pretty shit when you're caught between the cogs in the machine...

Don't get me wrong, possible other readers, I'd take this over what they have in the States any day - enough horror stories from friends who have been in crushing debt for years because of one hospital visit, or who have to choose between a doctor and a dentist because they can't afford to see both. It does bug me to no end that the Nordic social system is hailed as perfect and awesome, though, when people are still suffering enormously within it.

snowgrouse May 12 2016, 17:09:11 UTC

And nowhere else in the world will you have as many hoops to jump through to prove you're ill (and they might still not believe you), and you have to keep on proving it and fear you'll lose your benefits anytime. I think it was only because I mentioned hallucinating thanks to my sleep deprivation at times that got KELA to recognise the fatigue was debilitating and no joke. (And it is true; if I've been up for more than 24 hours, I start hearing these sounds like I'm sitting in a cafe with people talking and cups clinking and stuff like that. And it's pretty frightening when it happens because you never know if the sounds will, one day, just remain there and never go away ( ... )

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