I have spent over a year fighting huge companies for my earned benefits... I have fought AT&T, Sedgwick CMS, CWA Union, State Senators, NC Insurance Division, National Labor Relations Board. I have fought and written to News Papers, Blog Sites, Senators, the President of the United States, Congressmen, NOW, MoveOn, and every other agency, institution, and Civil Liberties organizations I could think up. No one will respond to me, no one will write me back, to acknowledge me, no one will do anything...
The worst thing of all is that this isn't just about me... it's about all of the other people like me, but without families to help them. People that commit suicide over the ruination of their lives and the devastation of their families, people that live in their cars with their children while they suffer in pain, chronic illness, loss of limbs, and worse without financial help waiting for the bureaucracy of the government programs like Medicaid, crossing their fingers hoping that in the 2 months of waiting they will be granted insurance... then to find out that the medication they need is on a "Pre-Authorization" list when they go to fill their prescription and have to go weeks hoping that Medicaid will not supersede their doctor's orders and deny the medication they need that costs $200.00 without coverage and have no money to pay for it. Or getting a letter in the mail telling them that the one good thing they had, Food stamps, have been cut off due to a clerical error. Now, not only do they not have medical coverage, prescription coverage, money, but no food either. Then, after applying for SSI or SSDI in March... not word still in October... knowing that 90% of all people are denied the first time and that they will have to find a lawyer to represent them on contingency to help them to try to obtain a service they have worked their entire lives for... and that when they, or if they do finally obtain, the lawyer is going to take a huge percentage of their first check and that is after a year or more of waiting without income because they cannot collect unemployment, since they are disabled and cannot search for work and that when their previous employer terminated them for being disabled they did so under the cloak of the hired henchmen that sit behind desks and override the medical findings and opinions of medical specialists and determine that despite Neurosurgeons, Doctor's of Physical Therapy, and General Practitioner's determining that you are disabled, that in their opinion, you are not, and demand you return to work Against Medical Advise, despite your inability to due your job or you will be terminated for "Job Abandonment" which in laymen's terms means you quit... and again you will be denied something you have worked your entire life to be able to utilize if lightning strikes.
So... during this excruciatingly long duration that this person has no income, they go to non-profit organizations for help and are told that they will give them $100.00 towards their rent, but only if they can prove they can come up with the remainder... or sorry we don't have that kind of money, or sorry we don't pay for those kinds of prescriptions... and like everything else, they are turned away. So, if they have family that are willing or able to help them, they go to stay with them... and they continue to fight for what is rightfully theirs, or they sleep in their cars until one morning they realize that they can't keep their families in a car and they are separated to stay in different shelters, if they can get in, for one night at a time with no guarantee that they will be able to get in the next night.
So... with this being said, it sickens me to think that no one is interested in this. That no one cares. That none of these so called "Liberal Organizations", or "Service Organizations" will respond, will take this to the press, will look into any of it, yet now that you have emailed them, they have your email and they send you requests for donations... and pretend any of the nastiness that is going on just doesn't exist and ignore your pleas for help... never respond to you at all and yet have the gall to put you on their mailing list for what they put in their subject lines as "Outrage", and ask for money for some weak agenda, some flavor of the day cause and act as if your plea never existed.
We don't matter.... none of us. If we don't stand as one voice and shout at the top of our lungs at the injustice of this, we will continue to be nothing other that something that has fallen in a crack and walked over daily without thought.
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