Irritable Bowel Syndrome Message Boards | Re: Stupid health insurance rant!

I don't even know what to say. That must be so frustrating. Health care is set up so badly in this country. My mom has to take meds for high blood pressure, congestive heart failure and depression. She got laid off a few months back and lost her insurance. When she tried to get state aid they told her that she doesn't qualify because meds have to be "life saving" or some such bull. Hello? Congestive heart failure. If she doesn't get her meds, she'll die. I'd say they're life saving. But insurance companies don't care. What a pain in the ass they are. She finally just got a new job and can barely afford to buy her meds. But no insurance company is going to take her because of pre-existing conditions and for the last few months she's had to get by on samples and half doses. We're budgeted so tight we can't afford to buy them for her and she says she doesn't want help anyway. You and she, tough ladies. I don't know how you do it.

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