Showing posts with label home healthcare. Show all posts
Showing posts with label home healthcare. Show all posts

Wednesday, July 22, 2009

Welcoming a new day & ready to fight

Well I've done my morning routine medically speaking, walked our boys and now time to work on websites and web stores. I uploaded a link to my Etsy store, please give me feedback with any suggestions.
This morning I'm fuming about an article in the morning newspaper regarding our "NEW" healthcare reform. Apparently the "healthy" politicians don't think home health care is necessary anymore. Home health care is to be deleted from Medicare to help fund the new Universal healthcare for America. And just added into this healthcare plan is tax funding for abortions. I apologize in advance, but I've always felt that abortion is not a form of birth control. It has it's place, but not at the expense of the elderly and disabled.
I've written letters for the past 20 years about the lunacy of Medicare as it applies to the disabled. Now I have another reason to get on my soapbox today. I've fought for Medicare to help pay for home IV infusion supplies to no avail. Until the implementation of Part D (another joke) we had to pay for our IV meds as well. Now the only difference being the cost puts us in the coverage gap (black hole) and we pay full price anyway.

With regard to home health care, I prefer to do my own care without a nurse. I do my own dressing changes as well as IV infusion. I personally don't need anyone to take my blood pressure, heart rate, and temp another time since I already do it twice a day. And I certainly do NOT want to wait until they fit me into their schedule for the day. Add to all this: the only way Medicare will pay for home health care is if I am bed-ridden! Get real -another loophole for our government to not pay. Many who are disabled since childhood are NOT bed-ridden even though we need those IV's. Our IV site may be in a place where we cannot change the dressing, and we need assistance.
Regarding the retirees and disabled facing the end of their earthly time, then YES,YES,YES give them the comfort of home health care. Our healthy politicians must realize (and they will when finally facing their mortality) that shaky hands and weak legs MUST have assistance.
Try checking your blood sugar or giving yourself insulin when your so weak you can hardly hold the needle much less stick it in your stomach!
Another morning of writing emails, letters,and sending follow up faxes to my congressman and senators. I hope you will do the same. We need to stand together and show them we are a majority. If Universal healthcare is so great-let them join us in the program and drop the great healthcare plan they have now.