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[veronica_rich]

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[gryphons-lair.livejournal.com]

I see that, too.

One applicant asked her caseworker (not me) why we kept refusing to give her "her" benefits; her last kid was about to turn 18 and she needed to be allowed so she'd have something to live on! (Never mind that she was a perfectly healthy 40-something.)

Another put on his application that he was filing because if he was on our program he could get out of paying his child support payments.

Plenty of *headdesk* moments in my job, oh yes.

As for health care? Hell, yes. My coworkers and I agree our workload would drop by at least a third if people had access to health care before the condition got so bad they ended up in the ER requiring extensive surgery, time in the ICU, etc.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

Well, I've said it before, but I'll continue annoying anyone who'll listen until the day I die or my condition is cured: Had I been able to afford a simple doctor's visit and medication/antibiotics when I was so sick in 2003, I do not believe I would have this lifelong hypothyroid condition. (And it wasn't like I made enough money and was out spending it on hookers and blow, either. My extravagances back then consisted of the occasional paperback novel or dinner out.)

[gryphons-lair.livejournal.com]

You and everybody else with hypothyroidism, or diabetes, or heart problems, or... and no insurance to pay for treatment.

We so need universal coverage in this country.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

I suppose I could take my normal cynical view and posit that the oligarchy we've been trying to breed in this country again for the past three decades would be happy as clams to weed out the genetically "weak" and poor by letting them rot and die. After all, enough serfs make a light workload for the privileged ... but too many are just that many more mouths to feed. (Hence, you get the almost-constant cycle of war to kill off the surplus.)

[a-silver-rose.livejournal.com]

At the risk of sounding glib, that's a rather Scrooge-ish remark. I only hope that people for the most part do not feel that way. Not saying anyone reading this does, but it is a rather frightening concept.

[veronica-rich.livejournal.com]

To me, the feudal system was frightening - there's a reason they call it the "the Dark Ages" IMO. No chance to move up, no chance for advancement or to stand out and be noticed for being better at something, no way to GET a chance to be more than what you were born. It's why I said I *could* take that view. Just a possibility. Hopefully things are shifting.