Comments on: The Forgotten Uninsured https://bartblog.bartcop.com/?p=1096 The Blog of BartCop.com Wed, 14 Nov 2012 04:36:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9 By: idealistferret https://bartblog.bartcop.com/?p=1096&cpage=1#comment-5971 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 21:51:59 +0000 http://bartblog.bartcop.com/2007/10/12/the-forgotten-uninsured/#comment-5971 Tsakshaug, even with insurance, the medication can get really, really expensive. I know insured people who are still paying over $100 a month on medications. Sad, isn’t it?

Grimmy, I agree with you that the government would screw this up. They seem to be pretty good at that (War on Drugs, anyone?). Glad you enjoy my writing. Yours is awesome, too!

]]> By: grimgold https://bartblog.bartcop.com/?p=1096&cpage=1#comment-5965 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 15:39:11 +0000 http://bartblog.bartcop.com/2007/10/12/the-forgotten-uninsured/#comment-5965 Dear ILF, this is an excellent post.
In SF a few years ago, the wild-eyed liberal leaders gave out license plates to the homeless to put on their shopping carts. Then they all felt warm fuzzy feelings of good intentions in their hearts and were able to walk around with loving smiles, having appeased their own guilt.
The fact is that homeless people with mental problems should be in mental institutions being properly cared for, not sleeping amongst foxtails under a bridge or in the shubbery underneath a freeway overpass.
We are supposed to be the gleaming example for the rest of the world, yet in that liberal mecca, people without a place to go, for various reasons, crap in doorways and pee on walls in the financial district (hope you see the irony in that).
I’m against giving out free food and aid so that homeless can continue to be homeless, but the way we treat our mentally deficient homeless is criminal, and needs to change.
Further, the federal government should not get involved. This problem is none of their business – they’d just screw it up and make it worse anyway.
Thank you for your post, you are doing good work.
Grimmy

]]> By: tsakshaug https://bartblog.bartcop.com/?p=1096&cpage=1#comment-5963 Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:36:40 +0000 http://bartblog.bartcop.com/2007/10/12/the-forgotten-uninsured/#comment-5963 Even with a job, getting some mental heath care is difficult. My shrink does not take insurance, nor does my wife’s. The meds are covered, but not the sessions, and I consider my health plan to be a good one. Could I shop around and find a clinic that takes my insurance, sure, but the relationship with a therapist is important, and the one or two that are covered do not meet my needs.
With the plan we get two shots at detox, and then no more. It usually takes more than two tries to do it.

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