Because I’m disabled and my allowance is very small, I have been on Medicaid. This has made my prescriptions affordable, and I’ve been very grateful for the help.
But something happened yesterday; when I got the notification that my prescription was ready to pick up, it gave a cost which was WAY too expensive.
It’s as if they cancelled my Medicaid for some reason. This is a giant problem, since I can’t afford any of my medication without it.
I only have four pills left, and then will have to abruptly stop everything.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, my right leg brace broke tonight, and I can’t afford to get THAT fixed either until my Medicaid is restored.
Without my leg braces, I can hardly walk. I can barely leave the house.
I’m single, I live alone, and now I am stuck here.
What am I going to do??
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Hang in there. You said that it’s as if they cancelled your Medicaid for some reason. Why don’t you take immediate steps to find out? Hopefully it’s nothing major and can be restored promptly.
Go camp out at your local food stamp office until they fix it. They most likely need some bullshit paperwork. Have you tried calling them?
just one more question, did you get any letters from your local workforce agency? Did your worker at some point rework your case and give you TANF? Or SNAP? Either one of these can potentially interfere with medicaid if they coded your case wrong.
Just a few ideas.
October_rain: I’ll try calling the 1-800 number on the card tomorrow.
HDS: I’m not on food stamps. I was, for awhile, but they lowered my disability payments so low it was ridiculous. I got penalized for the food stamp amount I was getting. They were only paying me $488 a month (less than $6000 a year to live on). When they took my food stamps away, the monthly amount rose to $733 a month (which is just over $8000 a year). Still scary poverty-poor, but it was worse on food stamps. I’m also not allowed to apply for any other programs (like help with my winter heat bills). If I receive any kind of additional assistance, they penalize me by lowering my disability allowance. I’m essentially locked into poverty. I hate it, but it’s all I have.
Gosh that is awful. I am betting some idiot screwed up your case by toggling the wrong button in the computer. They do it all the time. I know in Texas their system is so complicated one wrong toggle and the entire case is a train wreck. I don’t know what state you are living in, but Texas is 49th in the nation for social services just ahead of Mississippi. Yes Mississippi.
I’m in MIchigan.
I hope this will be an easy thing to fix.
I’ve been fighting back panic attacks, just thinking about it.
Worse yet is if I have to drive somewhere and go to somebody’s office to get this straightened out. With my broken leg brace, I’ll be limping like Tiny Tim in the scrooge story. It’s really hard to walk without the braces, and sometimes people stare. Especially kids.
Cordless, try calling everyone, try contacting everyone by email , until you get to know what happened. You can always get answers through social engineering, so be kind and patient with anyone you talk to. but don’t stop insisting that you need to know and to solve this. But remember, you can catch more flies with honey than with closed fists.
This will be a big giant challenge for me, since social contact (even on the phone) is very draining for me. It saps my energy like a sponge, and I’m left feeling very drained and empty.
But of course I have to get answers for this; I can’t just ignore it or nothing will get fixed.
So I’m stuck. I have to do something, even if it kills me.
And (this part actually makes me laugh), if it does kill me, then I won’t have anything left to worry about, right? 😉
Hahaha, right. *sight
Fighting!
… one step at a time, but at the end at least you will be proud of having done it. To face social contact, I mean… that’s something.
And you are good at writing, So send lots of emails. To the president of the US if you have to…
😀 Just kidding… no pressure intended .
Do believe you can do this. Don’t over think it.
I think moneypenny gave some pretty sound advice. Make calls, be patient but assertive and persistent. Hopefully tomorrow you get some better news 🙂
It’s good advice, but following it is going to be very difficult from both a physical and psychological standpoint. And yet, I have no choice. (Thus my growing anxiety and panic.)
I don’t have e-mail addresses for the offices involved; I’ll have to call them or go there in person.
I do have the e-mail of the lawyer who helped me get disability; if all else fails, I may have to ask him for help.
Ironic, I guess… one of the prescriptions that I (now) can’t afford anymore was an anti-depressant. We were just moving me up to a higher dosage, and now I’ll have to crash right back down to zero, with no safety net at all.
It’s like rubbing salt into a wound that’s already raw to begin with.
Yeah do whatever you have to do this sounds like a pretty serious situation. It’s might not be an easy day, but try to stay resilient.. like you said you don’t really have a choice it’s something you have to do.. your lawyer would probably help at least with resources and a little legal advice wouldn’t hurt. when your dealing with the government it’s always a big bonus to know your rights. But it seems like your heading in the right direction with what your saying so I’m pretty confident you’ll have a positive out come, might not be immediate ( although I hope it is) but if your persistent I see it working out well for ya 🙂
Did you make progress today?
Navigating anything government can be exasperating. Truly, I don’t think I’ve ever dealt with a government matter that wasn’t at least mildly aggravating.
@cordless, I’m curious as well how things went today.
Hey cordless, i don’t know a thing about how things are so I just hope you did well today,. ..no pressure
Hope your day was better than mine! @cordless