A little while ago I wrote a short diary about how I couldn't afford insurance and about how I can't even get medicaid because our vindictive, greedy governor, Rick Scott has refused Medicaid expansion.
While at my local clinic yesterday afternoon, a case worker confirmed that I wouldn't even be able to get a plan on Healthcare.gov because my income was below the minimum. Even when I was employed last year, I only brought home just over five thousand dollars for the last fiscal year because the job I did hold last year only lasted three months because it was just an internship.
So I now have plans to go after both Social Security and Medicaid. I have no choice in this matter because Brevard County's employment opportunities are all but sucked dry and I've honestly given up any hope of finding a job, let alone a steady source of income.
I'm also doing this because it may be the only way I'll get proper treatment for Asperger's and all the other things that come with it, like constant depression and anxiety. What makes this worse is that interviewers see these things written on my face because I've had no guidance on how to cope with these, and public health departments can only go so far where treatment is concerned.
I'm also doing this because I don't want to end up another casualty of utter contempt for those who need medical care. And that's exactly what would happen to me should I end up in an emergency situation, or perhaps I'll end up with an obscene debt that I'd never be able to pay back because employment, especially decent, long term employment is unavailable to people in Brevard County. It's so bad over here that most people I talk to have a 'Take what you get and shut the fuck up' attitude when it comes to living here in general.
So wish me luck in doing this. I'm going to need it.
See you around,
Homer