Hi Everybody, Sent this to the county commissioners. No replies as of yet, LOL.
> Hi Commissioners, > > You have to understand this in front of the backdrop of my Social > Security income being cut to $790 per month while I now have zero > assets, which I realize is not a County Commission problem, but relates > to the situation. > > Supposedly, the Senior Friendship Center clinic receives some funding > from the County to, wonder of wonders, assist indigent seniors such as > myself with health care issues. This past Monday afternoon, the 21st, I > went over there in an attempt to get a bottle of insulin which > supposedly keeps me from dying the way my 54 year old friend did a few > months ago when she didn't get any diabetes meds at all. > > I had already applied to another program for insulin, but it has not > arrived in time. I spend at least one day a week, usually two or three > days, trying to chase down the various medicines I need. It is a > nightmare keeping up with all of it, I can't even work a day shift job > *because* I have to spend so much time arranging medicine and health care. > > I am also supposed to eat according to various guidelines that the > multitude of "diabetes diet" Nazis don't agree on, but that has so far > been beyond me, mainly for budget reasons. It doesn't help that I am a > lousy cook. > > Each medicine, some 3000 of them, has its own program, its own set of > hoops to jump through and, in effect, its own death panel. The Actuaries > worked overtime to get this system in place to covertly use untimely > deaths to cover up the fact that every penny we ever put in over the > years was immediately spent on various junkets and boondoggles and the > "lockbox" keys were *very* widely distributed. > > So, at the Senior Friendship Center on Monday I find not insulin, as I > expected, but instead a bitchy scolding from two paid staff members and > a truculent demand that I make an appointment for the next day to get a > prescription (never mind that the doctor I usually see was in the office > right then while I was there, I had been told last week to come Monday > afternoon *because* he would be there) a prescription which would have > taken the doctor less than a minute to write on the spot. > > Yeah, sure, that half a minute or so would have been an interruption - > but interruptions never matter when it is my appointment time. > > I was sufficiently insulted by their attitude that I went to the County > Commission office and spoke to the lady there, who as helpfully as she > could cooked up a deal to get the insulin from the Health Department - > the same Health Department which let me go for a year without any > diabetes meds a few years ago, by the way. > > I went to the Health Department expecting more trouble. I found the > Health Department attitude somewhat improved from a number of years ago, > but not all that great and I still would have to go back to Senior > Friendship Center for a different prescription because the prescription > I had was for a different brand of insulin than they had in stock. > > So, Tuesday I returned to the Senior Friendship Center. The people > seeing me asked me "Why are you here" and I replied that I was there to > generate a billing. That got me another scolding, and broad hints have > been dropped in the past how I shouldn't complain and if I do I could be > banned from the place. > > What kind of an institution is immune from public criticism? The Senior > Friendship Center, evidently. > > In spite of the scoldings and veiled threats I finally got the > prescription. Then I went over to the Health Department and after maybe > two hours waiting got the insulin for some $16. > > Elapsed time was two days. The Health Department overstated my income by > $1000 and refused to correct it the next day when I brought in pay stub > documentation "Take it or leave it". Oh well, it *is* Christmas, after all. > > But why the scolding and the insults at the Senior Friendship Center? > Supposedly because the woman who used to take care of all the drug > assistance has been on a slow-down strike for the last year or so > because the County Commission reduced the funding for her project and > her "hours were cut". That and there are people there who just like to > scold and insult. > > At first the drug assistance woman refused to service any drug requests > at all after the budget cut, but I and a number of others pointed out > that it was impractical for people to drive from a block away from the > Senior Friendship Center to somewhere in Nokomis. Since then she does a > little drug assistance, a lot of scolding and a whole lot of complaining. > > The complaining, the scolding and the insults should be an issue when > discussing the County funding of the Senior Friendship Center. Perhaps > the County Commission should interview the paid staff members and > determine why it is necessary for them to scold and intimidate the > people they are supposed to be serving? > > Or maybe the Senior Friendship Board of Directors should replace the > people who don't appreciate their jobs? What have we, 10% unemployment? > Maybe the jobs should go to people who would be happy to have them? > > Seems to me that the drug assistance woman should be grateful she still > has a job at all. Her "hours were cut" yet whenever I go there she is > there, they couldn't have been cut very much. I work only 7 hours a week > at a reduced rate and I was laid off completely for a whole month last > year. I know other people who have even less than I have. -- Regards, Pete http://pete-theisen.com/ http://elect-pete-theisen.com/ _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
