envelope28's Blog

its been a crazy few months here.. hubby's father has stage 4 esophogeal cancer that spread to the liver, and his sister has been battling stage 4 colon cancer for a couple of years.

She has been in the hospital for a few weeks now, trying to get some issues resolved. Things aren't looking tha great for her. Her insurance company is kicking her off her plan as of August 1st, and told her yesterday she has to get to a rehab facility and take chemo immediately they don't care if she isn't well enough to handle it. she has to do it.

she can go home, but if she does then the insurance company gives her a waiver to sign that she is going home to die, and they will no longer treat the cancer, no pain meds no nothing....

so basically if she leaves to go home  she's done for... only a few weeks left to live. 

my issue with this...      all the money we pay for insurances over the course of our lives and she is getting hosed.   she can't go home and be an outpatient.. 2 crappy choices if you ask me.

where is all the money going we pay for insurances? whose pocket????  cause when we really need them to help us out, they are kicking her to the curb.

It seems I have many choices to vote for a presidential canidate, but I need to know what each canidate stands for.. I'm confused.

It's my constitutional right to vote, so I'm going to vote, but for who???? I don't want to be the one who goes enny minny miney mo when I get into the polling place.

does anyone know of a site that breaksdown what each canidate stands for??

my concerns are the war,  social security,the rising cost of healthcare, and (of course) public service. I have yet to hear if any canidate is able to give me the answer I need.

I have to say I am truly sick and tired of people blaming the public employees for all the problems of the world. Instead of focusing their energies on the corrupt and fiscally inept politicians we have in office, they instead blame us for the lack of funding. This latest attack comes from an article posted in last Sunday's Boston Globe from a David G. Tuerck, who is listed as the executive director of the Beacon Hill Institute and a professor of economics at Suffolk University. In a nut shell, he thinks that public employees should pay more on their health insurance so that the state would have more money to fix roads and bridges. He further goes on to say that "the problem is that the public employee unions control the state and local government." Really now? Is that why we had no control over our good health insurance being dumped in favor of a cheaper one that saves the town money, but really offers no benefit to the employees? Or the fact that I haven't had a raise in over two years. In the ten years I've been on the job, I've yet to see the town give us any benefits, only take them away. How is this controlling the government? All they want to do is take, take, take, but never give anything back. And then they cut our staffing, so that we have to work at unsafe levels. If we controlled the government, then we would have enough firefighters and police officers on the streets with top of the line equipment to do their jobs. But, guess what? We don't. Maybe a few towns do, but since you're talking about all public employees in the state, then you must recognize the many towns that do not have adequate staffing. Look at other places such as Saugus that just closed a station and is now running out of one firehouse. Or Springfield. The only people that are going to look out for the public employees is us. No one else cares. I like it how people keep sticking their hands in my pocket trying to take more money from me. Mr. Tuerck, why don't you stick your hand in your own pocket and give. I'm sure your annual salary supersedes that of mine and my wife combined. Or perhaps you should look at the federal government who spends billions of dollars helping fix other countries' problems. Maybe, just maybe, we should try and fix our own problems first. Never mind building infrastructure in Iraq, take care of the people here. The ones that live here, work here, and pay taxes here. Stop trying to take more money from me just because I work for a town and not a private industry. Ok, maybe you pay a little more for health insurance. But, many people also get some type of bonus or profit sharing when they work in private industry. What do I get? Nothing. Not even a thanks for coming to a house at 2 in the morning because someone has had a stuffy nose for three days. And, what makes you think that the government would actually use the money saved from me paying more on my health insurance to fix roads, bridges, and tunnels? They've been irresponsible with our money for so many years, why stop now? Maybe they'll give themselves another pay raise. Perhaps you should try working in a hazardous environment and then be told you have to may more for your health insurance. Firefighters, police officers, and EMS people face countless dangers every day and not from the things you normally think about. Hazardous material is everywhere that can make you ill and even give you cancer. People are constantly coughing, urinating, defecating, and vomiting on you. You face needles with God only knows what blood born pathogens in them from drugs users who leave their paraphernalia all over their residences. And everyday you face people that look down on you because they feel they personally are paying your salary. Like I'm a serf indebted to them. Please Mr. Tuerck, come out at 2 in the morning with us and face these dangers. Come out on a motor vehicle accident with us and deal with a teenager that has been maimed or killed. Come out of your office and work in the heat and humidity during the summer and cold and snow during the winter. And then see if you are so willing to pay more for health insurance. Perhaps the next time I get sick from someone sneezing on me, you'll be willing to pick up my prescription for me. Or the next time we get called to move a 400 pound person that needs to go to the hospital, I'll call you. Because I can't risk hurting my back and having to use my health insurance because it might make the rates go up.