Welcome to my new series,"What Happens When..." where I am going to explore various topics that are relevant to me, and hopefully you as well. The first in this series, "...I fall between the cracks" is about the struggle to get adequate healthcare and the path that I, myself have been down on my journey to be healthy.
As a child, I do not remember being sick much, in spite of having two siblings, I do not even recall missing days from school. As an adult on the other hand, I feel as though I've been sick more days than I've been healthy! It began around the age of 22 or 23 and ten years later it has only seems to have gotten rapidly worse. Logically thinking, I have to say that in part this is due to lack of consistently decent healthcare in a failing healthcare system.
People have asked me on many occasions why I'm not adequately insured in some way, especially with the implementation of #Obamacare and my response to them is very simple, I am exempt from having to have insurance since the state I live in refused to expand its individual Medicaid system. I AM the grey area. A person like myself, with an extensive medical and mental health history can fall between the cracks very easily if you live in a state as independent as Texas. A place that can, in essence, choose which laws of the land it will abide by and and which they will blatantly ignore. It doesn't seem to bother the law makers much, though they are very much aware of what is happening to those of us who cannot afford ANY sort of insurance.
They are insulated and ignorant to what that Texas bravado is doing to it's communities. It isn't segregated either. Teachers at my children's school have confided that it is difficult to even provide life saving medications for their own children, because they do not have adequate family coverage. These are the people who work hand in hand with us parents in moulding and shaping our children, and we can't ensure that their own children are taken care of? We the "greatest nation ON THE PLANET" would turn it's back on its citizens without the bat of an eyelash. THIS is deplorable to say the very least.
Most European countries (where many of us originated from) give its citizens some form of Social Insurance coverage, which in turn ensures that its work force is healthy, less stressed and more able to perform their work duties with efficiency and accuracy. THIS in turn guarantees less time taken off of work for personal or family illness. Wake up America you are your own downfall.
