Notice from DSHS

[polaris93]

Friday I received in the mail a notice from the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services (DSHS) declaring that from now on, clients of theirs over age 21 will no longer have dental care, hospice care, foot care, or vision aids covered by Medicaid

Comments

[mosinging1986]

Ugh, I am so sorry. And you're right, it's going to happen everywhere.

I need to get a freaking JOB soon, so that I can help out my parents when this starts happening to them!

:::flails & pulls hair:::

[polaris93]

You know, my adoptive mother and her sister wanted me to kill myself when I was a child, and hated me because I just couldn't bring myself to do it. They really should have killed me then and there -- I'd never have faced anything like this, and no one would have thought the worse of them. I've been begging God to let me die since I was 6 years old. That I am not dead now must mean that God hates me. I have nothing to live for, no family to take me in, nothing at all. Why am I still alive? It can't be for any good reason.

[mosinging1986]

Well, I have liked talking to you here, for the short time I've known you. I'm sure others feel the same. I don't know what all the answers for you are, but I know no one is here for no reason. I wish you'd seek out some counseling help somewhere. There's no shame in doing so, I have done it myself at various times in my life. The worst thing is feeling alone, like here's no way out. But there are options that others can give us that we wouldn't have thought of ourselves. Please don't give up hope entirely.

[polaris93]

Talk won't help me, because the problem is financial and social, not psychological. I'm caught in a trap that is very, very real, not one of my own making. And there are a hell of a lot of people who really hate people like me because we receive financial help from the government. When that ceases, they'll be on us like wolves on a sick deer. That's always been the case. I'm under deadly threat, and all a counselor could do is try to make me believe I'm not -- they often do that, try to get people to be unrealistic about their situation at the worst possible time, and I've been hurt that way in the past, too, hurt very badly. No, this isn't all in my head, it won't go away, and I will soon have no shelter, no food, and no medication to keep me alive, and lose everything I have. It's little enough, but when it goes, I'll have nothing. And it won't come back, and that's it. Death really is preferable to that. That I don't have the spine to embrace death now is appalling.

[expanding_x_man]

This really is horrible, and I can only imagine that this will happen in California as well since we are broke now, well, beyond broke. They've already cut back a lot on Medicaid, but not to the absolute bone. If SSI goes, I know people who will be in big trouble.

I am not sure what to say, but I hope you find some solutions. I am hanging by a thread, and recently found work, but need to find more. My situation is dire, but not as dire as it would be if I were disabled in any way. Please hang in there! Again, not sure what to say except i hear you out here and I"m sending my best wishes to you for solutions to be found, whatever they might be.

[polaris93]

The one possibility that might bring relief is that news agencies might make the public aware that rather than, say, cutting their own salaries or getting rid of legislative pork, their representatives are taking this out on the disabled. That just might embarrass the batards into reversing some of this and, instead, cutting out pork and that sort of thing. Maybe. Possibly. I'm not holding my breath.

[hannahsarah]

They're doing this on purpose, so when Obamacare gets forced on us we'll be so desperate, in so much pain and misery, that we'll be grateful for any crumb that he throws us. He wants us on our knees, begging for relief from our dismal situations, and then he can finally be the Obamessiah.

[polaris93]

If he does, it'll be only in his head, because a federal judge just threw out Obamacare as unconstitutional.