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Not old enough for Medicare and going broke with company insurance
Aging Well | Last Active: Sep 4, 2022 | Replies (23)Comment receiving replies
ahh @becky1024 just opening up connect site and happened to see your comment above not even going back to find out subject but agree such a difference living a life with little/little/fixed income. I am senior and when raising two children after divorce was working in an office and barely making ends meet...i could have applied for what used to be called in Canada 'Mothers' Allowance" but decided to keep my job and not 'enter the system"...was hand me down clothes for us all, yard sales, no holidays old car too old to use in winter so city bus , standing in minus 20C while coworkers drove by.... been there, done that; one thing grateful for was our basically free health system. However, I did hear horror stories of those on what they called welfare, mothers allowance, disability pensions etc. being treated badly or differently - labelled! And what is ahead now - even our medial system going down the drain since Covid and people finding they can work from home, but what surprised me is a recent poll asking how many of the public would be interested in working in the health field and it was appallingly low... what??? People no longer wish to look after sick/ill people... well who is going to help those of us who need medical help in the future..or a member of our family......quite scary. Solution? oh and rent-geared-to-income is available here but a very poor family can move into a home; win ten million dollars; or get a good paying job; but are not asked to leave the housing... for various reasons... so waiting lists are extremely long and become permanent housing as market rent too high, plus month later could lose job, even lose money, and would be back on waiting list...when i was raised in uk had been in poor house after War then parents got a municipal all the same rent semi detached house and my mum and dad were over the moon, finally a decent home and garden, made the world of difference and always grateful for that. Both parents worked at low paying jobs but affordable rent, no extras but after the war majority working class no extras but I have no idea how 'disabled,' or singles; or people on government funds existed... still better than many other countries we see on tv etc., but still too many people needing a roof over their heads and especially help paying for medical bills, J.M.O. Best wishes
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Just read your post, interesting. 2019 was the turning point for me, from decent to disaster to a nightmare. From having precancerous cells beginning to progress into cancer to discovering a rare heart birth defect, a 1 in a million defect that’s trying yo kill me. To kidneys failing, having 3 heart attacks, losing the use of both legs and arms, to catching Covid 5 times on and on and on it goes. My country is a train out of control ready to crash and burn.
I’ve chatted with others from around the world including Canada and the UK. I’ve learned from them how difficult it can be to get medical help and Covid hasn’t made it any easier. Because of my many rare health problems, I’m trapped in this system till the day I die. Thankfully it may not be much longer as my heart is nearly worn out. I wrote a book and titled it “One Story At A Time!” It tells the stories about the trials and tribulations of people living in my small coal mining community back in the 1800’s. It was just as bad back then as it is today. Sickness, starvation, drought, deaths, just like your story today as well as mine. I hope things work out for you, for me, I’m just waiting for the Grim Reaper to tap me on the shoulder as say, “You’re Next!!!”