This Morning’s Struggles:
So this morning has been a continuous struggle with my Medicaid insurance and long term nursing care. To put it simply I get 24 hour nursing care that insurance covers but you have to reapply every year and it takes them a good long while before we hear from them. So the major issue right now is that I need to be taken care of because of my health condition. I can’t afford to be alone because of a potential medical emergency. I don’t have use of my lower body, arms, or hands to help take care of myself. Insurance has been a fight that has been going on for too long. Even though they’ve covered my health care for a while now it’s just frustrating that we’re having to go through these hoops at the last minute especially at the heart of Christmas time. It just goes to show how badly run the insurance companies have been and it’s really unfortunate for those in my position that we’re having to deal with this. Right now I’m just blessed to have a support team that advocates for me and my needs to be taken care of. I’m not here whining and complaining about myself I’m just trying to show how insurance companies can be a big inconvenience to the lives of people who are in actual need of healthcare. The first-year cost associated with paraplegia is $152,000, while the first-year cost associated with quadriplegia is $417,000. About 52% of spinal cord injury survivors are covered by private health insurance at the time of injury. And even those 52% will most often find that their insurance has a limit. According to Aldous Law, approximately 13% of people who sustained a spinal cord injury in the United States since 2010 suffer from total quadriplegia. This just shows how little they will help those in need if they don’t have "exactly" what they require in regard to documentation.
