Kittie Chaos

Recent project for my family for Christmas.

2009-12-13T01:11:00.000-05:00

Wanted to show you all what has taken all of my time in the last few weeks.
Money is really tight because of disability and wanted to do something nice for my family. I realized that there would be something that would be so special for them and make something that they could enjoy. I have the family pictures that range from the civil war to present. So.... I took and scanned them into my computer and restored them so much better condition then when I got them. This is a collage of the pictures and that's cool but I have done a movie with them to the song I will remember you. I thought it was very appropriate since remembering our past is the best way to celebrate our future. After all Christmas is for more than just money. I have worked on this project for at least 100 hours so I really hope they will love it. If they don't well then I still loved doing it.

To all of my friends and family across the internet Have a very happy Holiday and I love you all.

Kitty Chaos

Well as usual my world cotinues to fall apart

2009-11-10T22:39:00.000-05:00

Well I haven't been on here because I just can't face all the crap that is going around and me scrambling to make my family and my life bearable. The one things I did not put in the last post because I was trying to be positive. Well positive sucks and it don't work! I lost the appeal and now have no worker's comp again. The woman made her word and turned me down because I got my disability through OPERS. The one thing that I do want to say just because I don't care anymore is that the woman was dressed like a whore. She had red patent leather gogo boots, a very short skirt and even lower cut shirt. Apparently this is her way. When I told my doc about the hearing after it was decided he said well "I could have told you that you would lose with her, because she absolutely hates me and has slandered me all over." He has been in contact with her supervisor several times but she continues to deny any of his claims. Now how is it fair that me an innocent person gets caught up in their petty ass stupidity. I now have to pay back all of the money that I have gotten from workman's comp. Pay it all back over $10000. Now where in the bloody fucking hell am I going to get $10,000. I can't pay my bills. We've been on food stamps and I have to come up with $10000. Well guess you can't get blood out of a stone. My house isn't worth what we own on it. and my truck well it's a piece of shit. So good luck guys I have NOTHING!!!!

And then there's more. When they approved for the doctor to get paid apparently it was a pending. As far as I knew it was marked approved. I saw no pending on it or any other documents. All of a sudden I get a denial for what they had already approved. Well great now I have yet another hearing this Friday (the 13th. Now come on who has a hearing on Friday the 13th.) This one is to determine whether my doctor is going to get paid or not. I've been seeing him since May at least 2 if not 3 days a week. If they deny this I am stuck with paying this too. I think he knows he's not going to get his money because all of a sudden he is very interested with making his case why he should see me. Now where was he when I was trying to get my money. No where near studying and making his case on why my back is messed up and that the nursing home was responsible for my injury. I guess I'll have to lay it in the hands of fate because there is nothing more I can do about it. They can't take anything, I have nothing. And I give up.

Kitty Chaos

Here we go again

2009-10-20T22:45:00.000-04:00

I got the letter from PERS stating that my disability benefits will be retroed back to August1. Ok I love good news for a change even if it does last just a little while. Let me soak this up that yes we will have SOME steady income so that hopefully I don't lose all that I have left,

I had my hearing with worker's comp today and the first thing that the hearing officer says is well I guess you need to speak up about your disability application as that will affect the ruling of today's hearing. WHOA Bullshit. I was forced to apply for PERS disability in order to have a family, house and at least a couple bills paid. and maybe more important reason is That I worked my butt off for them and they have been trying to feed me to the wolves. Getting the disability was because of what has resulted from an injury at work. The disability payment is quite low since I am supporting 5 people on it. Well I answered her questions appropriately and I was almost ready to flip out a bit when the lawyer speaks up and say the one does not cancel the the other but supplements and work in combination and augments the other.

As usual they were saying that I was offered hours to work with accommodation and I refused. Well that part was their burden of guilt and the fact that I was not given adequate accommodation and that I had cooperated with all other transitional duty assignments and they were grasping at straws instead of me for once.

One of the problems is that the hearing officer that we were before is very conservative and tends to side with the companies but the good part of her is that she is very thorough. So wish me luck I won't find out anything for week to 10 days, but I could sure use some positive energy right now.

Kitty Chaos

Finally some "good" news.

2009-10-10T17:24:00.002-04:00

Well all I'm happy to tell you that I received the letter from OPERS that I have been approved for disability. And even better yet I think that my place of employment has shown themselves to be just what they are liares. Now remind you that they have done nothing but harass me, accuse me of "playing them" and telling me that I was worthless and had never done my job from day one. When they took my office job away from me that I could do. Then they took away my full time and expected me to work the floor and because of my restrictions put me on night shift as a floor nurse, stating that this was sufficient accommodations. Now I'll remind you they had demanded that I take a functional capacity evaluation because they wanted to prove there was nothing wrong with me. When that test stated that I was unable to tolerate a 8 hour day or 40 hour week but if I was in a sedentary job could possibly tolerate an 8 hour day. After the results of that test and because it didn't show them what they wanted they have attempted to ignore it like it never existed and have tried to force me to work the floor. ( In fact I received a certified letter telling me that I was to be placed on the schedule to work night shift after the 7th of October and if I did not return to work at that time I would be fired for not showing up for scheduled work.) When my doctor and lawyer saw that they had no intention of honoring my restrictions in July they put me off work and applied for temporary total disability, it went to hearing and I was awarded full time benefits. They have now appealed that decision and are trying to get them to make me pay back all of the benefits that I have received, and refuse me any further benefits.

My hope is that they signed my papers for OPERS saying that I was unable to work (which is true), they told unemployment I was unable to work, but told worker's comp that I can work with no problems. Since they have made the statement to 2 different institutions that they will be seen that they are unable to tell the truth. Now you can't have things both way and not be caught up and proven a liar. My thought is they don't know which hand they are looking at now and are screwing themselves up which is a good thing for me.

I have a hearing on the 20th with worker's comp where they have told them and are trying to convince them that I should be sent back to work without restrictions and stating that they offered me work within my restriction and that I refused to take it therefore should not be receiving workman's comp at the same time they have signed that I am unable to work. Anyway I am sure that worker's comp is going to look at that fact and deny their demands that I am to return to work without restrictions and deny their appeal to deny me my worker's comp benefit. Makes sense doesn't it? So I need all the positive thoughts I can to keep them from winning their appeal so that I can live at least slightly above the poverty level.

Hugs
Kitty Chaos

Another example of work management stupidity

2009-09-24T21:30:00.001-04:00

I think I mentioned earlier that I had a workman's comp hearing yesterday because work is saying they offered me work within my restrictions but I refused to participate. Well I'm not stupid enough to refuse unless it's above my restrictions which they have chosen without a second thought to ignore this entire time. Well the hearing didn't give the "county" the extra time they wanted so they gave a continuance. Which oh well until I would lose that hearing whenever it will be I'll still get paid so no skin off my ass, they just screwed themselves a little more.

Fast forward to noon today. The HR from work calls me and asks me to come meet with Dave (administrator and same one that told me I was faking and I'd better knock it off)and her about working within my restrictions. Well first of all my restrictions are everything! I'm on total temporary dis ability. Get it TOTAL that means I totally can NOT work. Duh----. Well I told her that I would have to ask my lawter before I committed to anything. Called the lawyer and he says absolutely do not talk to them or meet with them or anything. Just tell them you are temporary total all activities are restricted you can do nothing for them. The only way you will meet with them is if they send the lawyer and the doctor an EXACT description of what this job would entail and they would decide whether I could do them or not. If they approve it and I go back the very first time that they force me to go beyond those restrictions I was done and that they would be sued for more than just my wages because it was guarantee I would get hurt again because of them and any ANY new injuries or exacerbation they can be sued for pain and suffering, effects on marriage etc because of then forcing me to perform beyond those restrictions. So I called them back and told them what the lawyer said. Man her response almost gave me frost bite but ohhhhhhh well poor baby.

I mean how stupid do they really think I am to come in there with administrator and HR with no one to stick up for me. With 2 of them in on it they could say anything and back each other up even if it never happened or was said at all.. IF I meet with them it will be in a public place with either my lawyer or someone else to represent my interest with me.

The thing that I think is absolute hilarious is that they know they are fucked and I have the advantage. Not only is it costing them dollar for dollar of what I am getting in increased premiums but when I get to the point that things aren't going to get any better they will have to pay me a settlement of $50000 or a monthly wage for the rest of my life. They are shitting their pants right now and I find that I am really enjoying their panic Everybody I have told in my family have said they know you WILL win and they are squirming big time.

All I can say is fuck em, cause lord knows they have harrased me for a very long time and it's about time they got a little of it back. If karma is true they will pay in the end and I won't have to do a damned thing to cause it.

Smiling and content
Kitty Chaos

Two new members of our family

2009-09-20T21:36:00.000-04:00

We now have 2 new members of our family. Our neighbor was forced by the health dept and some other uptight parent in the neighborhood to tear down his barn. Well he ended up in the hospital from the stress and his bitch of a sister took it upon herself to get the barn torn down and clean out his house. (It really was a mess and is a huge Victorian farm house that belonged to the 100 acre farm that we all now call home in our neighborhood..) The barn wasn't in real good shape and all kinds of animals lived in it. Most of the animals were domestic but there were some coon, and possums in it at times. This guys sister is apparently an animal hater and didn't feel she had to clear the animals out of the barn before they took the steam shovel to it. I knew there were some feral cats in there because since George was in hospital/nursing home he wasn't feeding them they were coming to me for food. (yes I'm marshmallow heart but I can't stand to see animals go hungry) What I didn't know was there was a litter of kittens in there. We were watching and almost crying because I knew there were animals in there and out run 2 tiny little kittens. They can't be but about 4 or 5 weeks old and they were the only ones who made it out. I don't know if they had siblings and don't know about mom but these 2 tiny kittens came running past us into the pine trees and ornamental grass that belong to the neighbor and these were all within their fence and they were at work.

We were in another neighbor's yard watching all this and "the bitch" decides to come over to talk with us and starts in about how all those fucking cats are worthless and inbred and George shouldn't be feeding them anyway because they need to just die and get it over with. Well needless to say I about went through the roof but before I could say anything Debbie starts in on her about well do you think your blood is pure and you're perfect? I got news for you bitch but you aren't anything but trash to even say anything like that. She just sputtered and looked at us not saying anything but being properly dressed down. In the end she just kind of snuck away. Man I wanted to pop her but Debbie hit her hard enough with her words. I'm not really that kind but damn it was hard to not to.

When the neighbors got home we dug around these huge pine trees with VERY sharp needles and in the ornamental grass. Did you know that that stuff has hairs on it that get in your skin like fiber glass?? eek) After a lot of scratches a fishing net and a LOT of cussing we come out with 2 kittens about 4 weeks old. We could literally hold them in the palms of our hands. They were scared and tired, thirsty and hungry. We put them in small pet carrier and brought them home. We gave them some tuna fish and man did they gobble that down so we knew they could eat on their own even though it would have been better for them to still be with mom but that wasn't an option.

So.................. we have 2 new tiny little kittens and they are doing fantastic. Rosie is an orange medium length hair female with blue eyes and Inky is black long haired male with blue eyes. (Thank god for the humane society doing spaying and neutering.) After the first day they didn't even act feral anymore and they have decided they like all the love and attention they are getting a lot from all of us and now have the run of the house. It's fun to watch them play with each other and all of us. Think I'm beginning to live in a zoo now. But hey it's never boring. We now have 3 dogs 4 cats and a rabbit living in our house. Gotta love an protect animals cause if we don't no one will.

Kitty Chaos

One thing after another.

2009-09-13T22:54:00.003-04:00

I am having the fun of trying to work my way through the bizarre world of workman's comp. If anybody ever tells you it's easy believe you me they are lying to ya. With workman's comp if you lie it's one thing you'll for sure get popped for but if your employer lies it is encouraged. They can appeal any good ruling at least 3 times bringing out all kinds of outlandish accusations and statements with you having no civil recourse for their actions against you. They can say whatever they want. It is my job to prove that they are wrong. How fair is that?

Hmmmm let me think of a few of the lies:

1. We laid her off and she has no rights because we did it for economics alone. Well while I am "laid off", why are the others that were supposedly lower than me in seniority are working 40 hours a week or more. Me NONE. That is not laid off for economics that is just plain vindictive.

2. We gave her a job with accomodations and she refused it. Their ideas of accomodations are that I work the floor on night shift every other weekend. My restrictions are no lifting, no pushing or pulling of a #300 med cart, no stooping, kneeling or squatting. Supposed to have a sedentary job. I don't know what you know about nursing homes but even on night shift there is no way that it is sedentary. Their expectaions are that a. I have the ONE aide I have each night to push my cart for me when they have 2 peoples work to do already. b. I'm to prepull my meds for my med pass. Well this is illegal and could cost me my license. c. If someone needs help I'm to call the aide. Well since there are only 3 aides in the building at night, my aide for at least half of the night is either on break or helping on the other ends. How am I to call them when someone has fallen and I'm the only one there or if they are standing in the middle of the hall about to fall and you can't lift them. c. If there is any lifting to do I am to use the ceiling lifts or get help. Well yes the ceiling lifts are great back savers you still have to get the sling under them and if they can't move on their own you have to do a lot of pushing, pulling and lifting to get the sling in place before they can be lifted. And again what help? c. As for the bottom drawer is where all liquids, countables, and narcotics are and I can't reach below my knees. Their answer to that is to sit in a chair and take it down the hall with me along with pushing the #300 med cart and use the chair to get into the bottom drawer. Well if you are reaching below your knees sitting and doing it is even more of a strain on the back than standing and doing it.

2. She was like this all this time and we've been working with her anyway but we can't afford to any longer. Well I worked 10 years (this time) for them 40 hours plus per week and functioned just fine with a few instances of being off ill. After all I am human the last time I looked.

3. She is just playing the doctors and us she never even got hurt. They demanded that I take a functional capacity exam because they said I was faking it all and "playing them" Well that functional capacity exam not only proved I wasn't faking but said that I was doing more than I was even capable of and therefore risking further more serious injury so that I could keep my job. What was their excuse then for taking away the job I could do and throwing me on the floor when they had the documentation of a functional capacity exam that they have chosen to totally ignore the results of that test and pretend it never was done because it doesn't agree with them. (by the way my desk job is being done by an LPN that has been licensed for only a year and that job is required by state regs to be done by an RN) My refusal was when they pulled me into the office and had my job description shoved in my face and asked if I could perform all of the duties in the description and me saying truthfully that I couldn't as if they didn't already know by my restrictions and the test. I NEVER refused anything!

These have all been said to the industrial compensation board about me and I'm the one that has to prove that they aren't true without any legal recourse of defamation, harrassment, or any other way of civil litigation possible.

I had a hearing on the 21st of August and won that hearing so got back pay for July 10 through that date and supposed get a check every 2 weeks for what they allow for full time. By that time I had a threat of foreclosure on my home. My utilities shut off and had absolutely no food in my house so had to applied for food stamps, and "welfare" . If you think that didn't stick in my craw you're wrong. I knew that there was a chance that they could appeal the hearing but didn't know that if this hearing would go against me I will have to pay all of that money back to the worker's comp by giving up whatever future worker's comp benefit I get if any and they will get 60% and I will get a whopping 40%. What I was making at 100% wasn't covering everything. So now I get to sit and wonder until after another hearing on the 23rd to see If I will have to pay what I got back. So what I have gotten at this point is all I am going to get until after that hearing and maybe forever.

Now mind you all of this is with a damned good lawyer that specializes in workman's comp. I can only imagine what it would be like on my own trying to navigate through this maze of legal bullshit. He gets a third of whatever I get but without him I don't think I would have gotten anything. In the mean time I have applied for disability from work but that is less than 1/2 of what I made so if you have any good positive thoughts, prayers, spells or whatever your belief, I would really appreciate them at this point. the idea of the food stamps and all that again is almost more than I can handle and have had almost as much as I can handle already.

Kitty Chaos

2009-07-18T22:14:00.006-04:00

Well I guess now I have all the time in the world to actually be on here now because I'm officially unemployed. When they told us that they were going to abolish our full time jobs we were promised at least 16 to 32 hours. Well the Dr. found out I wasn't being allowed to follow my restrictions and put me off for 2 weeks (est.) He let me go back after 1 wk. I went into work on the 6th of July, went into my office turned my computer on as usual but when I tried to log in I found out I had been locked out. Everybody kept saying you aren't supposed to be here. That made me really nervous cause I knew it wouldn't be a good thing. Now mind you we were still supposed to be full time until the 11th. I asked around as to why and no one supposedly knows anything. When the DON came in I asked her what was going on and she says "I don't know I guess you'll have to talk to Dave, and you aren't supposed to be here. (The lying fucking bitch!!!!!!!!!) I went on with my work etc that I could do without the computer and kept looking for Dave but he was obviously avoiding me. Well about noon he calls me to his office and there he sits at his desk and the business manager was in the other chair. KNEW this could NOT be a good thing.

He has me shut the door and has me sit down. Then he starts his bullshit spiel. He says all kinds of stuff that I already knew, but then. He says your job has been abolished and there is no longer going to be a restorative nurse. OK this is my desk job that I CAN do without problems and they've taken it away. Then he shoves my job description in my face and says can you perform all of these duties. I told him he knows I can't, They made me take a functional capacity exam that says that I am incapable of sustaining and 8 hour day or 40 hours week unless I am completely sedentary. Now mind you I blew out my back there for the 3rd time. When I tell him he knows I can't he says well then you are done. Hand me your master key and go clear out your office. So now they've gotten their way I have no choice but to apply for disability. I'm still working with the workman's comp lawyer who says he's going to get them for it, but that doesn't feed my family or keep my house now. Now I'm the ONLY RN cut to part time and the LPN's that were supposed to being cut to part time are all working 40 hours a week. Me I have NO hours. Well lawyer is going after them for violating ADA also. Man I can't wait.

I absolutely hate this but I am going to have to go to JFS and ask for a voucher to go to one of the food pantries and help to pay my utilities. I mean I was pay check to pay check as it was and I was off work a lot. I'm not getting paid for the week that I was off so my check was one quarter of what it normally is. I'm at the end of my rope here. I applied to unemployment cause they said as long as I can do ANY Job even with restrictions I qualify. Problem is I won't even begin to get a check until like the 3rd or 4Th week after I applied. No one is going to wait that long. God I hate this. I mean I'm an RN and we are supposed to be recession proof occupation. Not anymore.

Sorry to vent.
Kitty Chaos

MI give me a call I miss ya and still can't get in your blog.

2009-06-07T00:58:00.004-04:00

I know you should never say things can't get any worse cause no matter how bad it is it CAN ALWAYS get worse and everyday it is. This last couple of week has been one from hell. We found out on Monday that we are going to have layoffs or be cut down to part time which gives us NO benefits. No insurance, no vacation, no holidays NOTHING. Now I am the only one working here since hubby lost his job when his factory closed 8 years ago. He's got a learning disability and can't take tests for shit. Everywhere around here has aptitude tests and he can't pass them. Don't get me wrong he is very intelligent but he can't pass them. I don't know what any of you know about NW Ohio but we have a 26 percent unemployment rate. The auto industry is really our only major manufacturing and you all know about the trouble there.I'm losing my mind here.

2008-11-05T12:25:00.006-05:00

Yes WE can !!!!
Thank you America!!! for proving our system can and DOES still work!!!

Please tell me this week from absolute HELL is over.

2008-09-20T15:39:00.003-04:00

It has been a very very long week. Have been working my ass off on the plan of correction for a restorative citation because of a dissatisfied ex employee and not feeling very well on top of it.

Monday: Last day for plan of correction to be completely done and ready for resurvey by state. Checking and double checking everything I have been working on. I was bending down to pick up a pack of paper for the copier and felt a pop in the left side of my lower back. NOT GOOD! The herniations and problems with my back and hip have always just been on the right. This time I did make out an incident report at work that I did it there. I can't get it to chill out no matter what I do and of course not allowed any pain pills except Tylenol 3 and then only 2 a day.

Tuesday: State not here yet time to breath. Everything is done above and beyond requirements. Of course something has to go wrong. Murphy's law right? Of course mid day I got into it with an LPN at work because she out and out lied trying to get me into trouble for something she told aides to do and another (her buddy) got in my face and tried to tell me what my job was. Wrong move on the wrong day and the little mouse that I usually am turned into a lion. They were both damned lucky I didn't knock them on their collective asses.

Wednesday: Still no state. I was still fuming about the LPN's mouths and decided I was going to look in the paper for another job (on the computer at work because I refuse to pay for the rag). Didn't find any but was horrified to find the obituary of an old friends daughter. When our kids were little we were always together. Her kids called me mom and my kids called her mom. We were all inseparable. She was only 29. What could possibly happen to a healthy 29yo?

Thursday: State Still not here. Thank God cause I couldn't do anything but be weepy. Look at me cross eyed and I was in tears. Finally in the afternoon I got up the courage to ask my DON to take a vacation day for Friday so that I could go to Jen's visitation and funeral. I shouldn't have to ask for something I have earned ; but believe me it takes courage to ask her for anything she is a total bitch from hell. I told her that if state should happen to show to call me and I would be right there. State never shows on a Fridayso I should be safe to be off. She said ok probably cause you could tell I had been crying. Got home and then stayed up late looking at old picture albums and crying. Maybe not very smart but was reaching out trying to find a way to cope.

Friday: Had alarm set for 9:30. Plenty of time for me to get shower, dressed and ready. Visitation was at 11:00 and funeral at 1:00. 8:30 my phone rings. Guess what state just walked in the door. (Murphy's law again.) Threw my clothes on and literally went 80 all the way to work. Clocked in 9:00. Thank God I took a shower last night. When I got there DON said that that the woman had said she planned to be gone by noon. Went in and gave her all my tracking etc for proof of correction and gave them to her. So just a matter of time for approval and I figured I could still make it before the funeral . I hated that they were there but truthfully if she took longer maybe I could deny in my mind that there was a need to go to a funeral. 11:30 she's done and we are back in compliance. For the first time since Sue was the DON she told me I did a good job. Truthfully I about fell over. I put things away in my office and ran out the door to get home and change and go.

Man I really really don't want to go. When I got there I had myself convinced she had been in a car accident. Found friends there I hadn't seen in years. Took me a while but asked one of them what had happened. I almost fell when they told me she had committed suicide. This little girl was always the happiest sweetheart. That wouldn't even be conceivable in her personality. She had 2 little girls the youngest only a year old. Post partum depression? They said she had a fight with her husband earlier in the day that evening she tucked her girls into bed went downstairs and hung herself. I know a suicidal person is not really accountable for what they have done. It's a downward spiral that they can't get out of; but man does it hurt for those of us who are still here. My best friend committed suicide and I still blame myself. I should have known. We had a psychic connection between us like no other. I still miss him. I know how much it hurt me then and how much it hurts me now with Jen so I can't even imagine what her poor mother must be feeling. Please if you ever think that someone around you might be capable of that please get them help.

I have a couple autoimmune diseases; crohn's, Fibro and MS and none of them do well with stress. So I knew it was just a matter of time till one of them were pissed off enough to cause trouble. Part of what the MS does to me is gives me vertigo. I felt the vertigo coming yesterday and should have been more careful but hindsight is 20/20. I got up to go to the bathroom during the night last night and when I did my whole world spun and I fell. I don't remember what happened after that. When I fell I hit my forehead on the cedar chest at the end of the bed and now I have a goose egg on my forehead the size of a baseball and am probably going to have a black eye where I hit my cheekbone. I buggered up my shoulder. The vertigo is back and staying a while I'm afraid; so please tell me this week from absolute HELL is over with.

Sorry guys don't mean to whine but had to tell someone or explode.

Kittie

More Republican Bullshit

2008-09-08T19:22:00.007-04:00

Problem Solved?
We have an assignment for you. Just last week, The Dallas Morning News interviewed Sen. John McCain’s healthcare advisor and co-author of his health plan, John Goodman. Here's a clip from the article:
Mr. Goodman, who helped craft Sen. John McCain's health care policy, said anyone with access to an emergency room effectively has insurance, albeit the government acts as the payer of last resort. (Hospital emergency rooms by law cannot turn away a patient in need of immediate care.)
"So I have a solution. And it will cost not one thin dime," Mr. Goodman said. "The next president of the United States should sign an executive order requiring the Census Bureau to cease and desist from describing any American – even illegal aliens – as uninsured. Instead, the bureau should categorize people according to the likely source of payment should they need care.
"So, there you have it. Voila! Problem solved."
The Huffington Post, the top news blog on the Internet, has picked up on this story and has provided a substantial rebuttal. But there is one voice that’s entirely lacking in this debate: the caregiver perspective.
Lab technicians, psychologists, EMTs, nurses and others—what do you think about Goodman’s proposal? How can you relate your experiences as a healthcare professional to this crackpot solution? Remember, as caregivers, we’re the experts here.

I received this in my email today from a nursing alliance that I belong to. I know people hate Doctors and emergency rooms. Believe it or not we hate them too. (a lot of docs do too.)The medical community's management is all big business. (Well obviously they don't want ER's used as "insurance) but they are as political and corrupt as the people who are running this contry at this time. What they don't tell you is that they only have to give out enough medical care to rapay grants etc from government. Yes the ermergency rooms are required to treat anyone regardless of ability to pay. That's called the Hill Burton act. What he isn't taking into account is that the hospitals can and will transfer anyone that is "stable" to another hospital if they have fulfilled their repayment of this act. It doesn't take a whole lot to fulfill their obligation if they are a hospital with high traffic. They also don't tell you that in order for the bill to be paid IF that hospital still has an obligation at all, the person has to be so below the poverty level that it is almost impossible to be helped by the act, not to mention that the hospital will sue your ass as soon as you say you can't pay. It used to be you could pay 5 a month and they couldn't do anything. Not anymore they like all big business, they will require you to pay whatever amount they want a month in order for them not to take you to court.

The Republicans and admitedly some Democrats don't want you all to know what it's really like. They don't want you to know that the nurses are being worked to the point of exhaustion and that they are being stretched so thin that the nurses are working as aides, housekeeping, lab assistants etc. So while you are in the hospital the nurses you have really are trying to do their jobs and help you but they are being treated just as disrespectedly as you are. We get placed in jobs that we were not trained for and expected to meet all standards. (Training and schooling costs to much.) Like everything else, it all comes to big business.

Thought you all might be interested.
Kittie Chaos

Political Frustrational opinion

2008-09-04T22:36:00.026-04:00

I haven't done this before, but my buddy Malicious Intent has been "after me" to post so we can bitch back and forth at each other. I guess until now I just haven't felt strongly enough about anything to have the emotion or conviction to write anything more than comments. I know this can be just a fun thing and probably will be, but this is something I really feel strongly about and felt I needed to open my mouth (fingers) about this.

I'm an RN and a mom of 2 ADHD kids, an autistic (they are all adults), and an autistic grand daughter that lost her eye to retinoblastoma at 15 months and went through 2 years of cancer treatment. We have custody of her and she is doing great. She is almost 8 now. I have some medical problems myself and life right now is rather a struggle. Even worse and of concern to all of us. We have a country going to hell in a hand basket.

Our economy is in shambles and is only getting worse. Our gas prices are so high people can't afford to drive to work, food is too expensive to feed your family. Vacations? Hell they are totally out of the question. The political parties are at all time polarity with differences in beliefs. This may actually be a good thing, but I do feel as though that if the Republican party is successful in their goals there will no longer be any type of "class system" or family left in this country and there will only be the very rich and the very poor. Unfortunately most of us will be among the very poor.

I am medical professional and have been hearing a rumor within the medical community of a "plan" to tax every one's medical benefits. It has been written up in several journals but we all thought that it was so ridiculous it couldn't be more than just a rumor. Well I guess it is more than a rumor now. It has been brought to my attention that McCain's tax plan intends to increase each deduction for a child to $7000 each year. Well maybe that would be OK, but truthfully as a parent of special needs children even that isn't sufficient when in the lower or mid middle class. The biggest and most disturbing plan is to tax all medical benefits that you receive at when you are doing your best to provide for your family by working. The intent is all that your employer pays for your insurance will be taxed as income and on top of that, all the insurance claims that are payed by your insurance for your medical care will also be taxed as income. Meaning if you are unfortunate enough to have medical claims that are paid by insurance the total paid to your Dr. or hospital will also be taxed. So not only if you are unfortunate enough to have an illness and not get paid sufficient sick time,or ir any at all, even what your insurance pays will be considered income as if it were paid to YOU. If you are cursed enough to have cancer and your insurance pays $300,000 to your doctors and hospitals, you will be taxed as if you received that as payment for work. Now this has already begun to be implemented in part by the IRS. At the beginning of the year they began to be tax employees for any meals, cell phone access, or mileage payment as income as a dollar amount. I know this for a fact because we have meals available where I work and we are taxed on $4 a day as additional income. I mean I can handle that how after all how much can that be. I'd spend alot more going out to lunch. But medical benefits??? Not only will you be fighting for your life, you will be penalized for being "stupid" or unlucky enough to become ill, you might as well forget the insurance cause you might be better off without it. How is that fair?

Also planned by McCain Social security which our elderly have paid for their entire lives and the money that they paid has been taken and used for many other purposes including Bush's war, than what it was intended, will most certainly be discontinued. So our parents and grand parents will no longer have any income which they have paid for unless they were lucky enough to have a company pent ion. Truthfully there aren't many who do. Medicare will be almost definitely eliminated or reduced enough for it to be ineffective to keep our aged alive and well. They are already paying a minimum to nursing homes and doctors to the point that less and less physicians are even accepting medicare as payment and nursing homes are not being paid what it costs to care for our elderly to be cared for. (Don't believe the statement that medical professionals are paid more than they are worth. I haven't had a cost of living raise in more than 5 years, believe me they aren't getting what you think.) Medicaid has frozen payment to facilities and physicians for the last 5 years and payment is not actually based on cost but on what the government thinks they should pay or on what the cost was 5 years ago. With inflation being what it is costs are increasing and far from being frozen, costs are rising at an all time high.

Come on America is this really what is best for us?? It sure as hell isn't what my family needs or where my husband or father were proud to say they fought for. Maybe Obama isn't the best choice and maybe Biden isn't either, but it sure as fuck isn't the Republican party that is the solution. That will only be our downfall!!!