TennCare Sucks

Today we learned that TennCare dropped Peter's coverage. The Human Service case worked stated that our income is too high. The cutoff income is $980 per month. That's less then $400 each two weeks. How the hell can someone afford Health Coverage that doesn't work. They expect the spouse to include him on their plan. I work and can barely pay bills, and receive food stamps for assistance. All my children are being dropped from TennCare this month. I couldn't include them on my plan if I wanted to. The group sign up in n June, and it would cost me over $700 a month for coverage for the family through Aetna.

The DR office we called to inform them that he no longer has insurance coverage. They are trying to see what can be done to keep him there. Peter also has someone looking for a plan that takes pre existing disability, and maybe there is a plan that we could pick up. That's at least a $100 a month, that we don't have.

We also just found out that the Dr.Lasdon that he saw in Smyrna for pain management, was asked to resign from Metro General due to unethical practices. This information came from the ANS representative that put the unit in Peter's back. he said that they get send backs, units that have been removed from peoples bodies and replaced with units from other companies. The DR told us that he thought Peter's unit wasn't working properly. How would he know this within a 10 minute office visit, which Peter has no complaints about the ANS unit. Perhaps, money. The DR is getting information from another company selling their product, and each time a person gets a new unit the DR must get some compensation.

Meanwhile, we still don't have a cue how we are going to get insurance. His medication will run out in about a week. He stopped taking the Trazadone, which was working just fine in pain management, but inhibited his sexual functioning. So he refuses to take it, and the pain has returned to the previous intensity before Trazodone. We will pray tonight, that the DR office will agree to continue seeing him so he can get medication. if not, then maybe we can find a coverage that we can scrape together. The last resort is moving to a state that has Health coverage. The other problem is the faulty American Health Care system. There is no hope for people with chronic pain. We have fallen through the middle of the system. The government doesn't have a plan to care for us. Our Country has failed us once again.