Please bear with me as I rant. I am so damned angry that I could spit. My Mom is amazing, some of you have met her...she rocks.
She is also 80. She pays alot of money each month for supplemental insurance because our healthcare SUCKS.
So she calls her doctor's office today and tells the 'scheduler' that she needs to get into the doctor today because she's having congestion, coughing alot and having some breathing issues. In November 2006, this happened and she developed pnuemonia and was putt in the hospital. Follow me here folks.
So the scheduler PUTS HER ON HOLD...comes back a couple of minutes later and said the DOCTOR TOLD THE SCHEDULER TO TELL MY MOM TO GO TO URGENT CARE, she COULDN'T SEE HER....(this doctor has been Mom's doctor for 3 years and is 1/2 mile from her apartment)
I'm beginning to think that these schedulers do this, they allege they spoke with the doctor/nurse and use this response. (I received it from them one time as well...the ONLY time I EVER dealt with SHARP)
URGENT CARE SUCKS.... SHARP Urgent Care here in California is horrific.
So now my TOO SICK TO DRIVE 80 YEAR OLD MOM has to drive 10 miles to the flipping urgent care (I found all this out on my way home from work when I called to see how she was feeling)...so a friend from her complex went with her and a good friend of mine took care of her dog.
Folks, this UNACCEPTABLE, this is AMERICA for God sakes.
We have all these damned presidential candidates blowing smoke up our asses thinking we are getting orgasmic from it and loving them bigger then life, and they don't know SHIT.
This isn't the worse case of someone not receiving care that they need...but it hits too close to home.
Mom had this same shit about 15 months ago, a couple of weeks after my sister passed away and I took her to the Urgent Care, when they started dicking her around I requested an ambulance and we went to the hospital, she was admitted with pnuemonia.
Our country is broken. Our country is BROKE. WE AMERICANS ARE SUFFERING.
My Mom DESERVES better, we ALL do, yet what the hell can we do.
For those of you that want to rant/rave politics and which candidate will do something...not just talk, here is what I say: Don't Obama me, surely don't Billary me. I like Edwards, I want him to win, I truly in my heart and soul think he's the ONLY candidate that GIVES A DAMN.
So as angry as I am, noting will change, I need to see if Mom has gotten in to see the doctor yet, it has been FOUR HOURS so far. God help all of us.