Who can tell me sth about the American Dream

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Ernestine

Well it's probably really stupid to make my board debut in the middle of a heated thread but then - why try to be something I'm not, eh?

Hell yeah, jump right in and welcome to the Cellar.

He is now working part-time at WalMart for 6.75/hour so the SSDI checks have stopped but he still gets the medicare/medicaid. It's a good thing he does because his monthly cost for medication is $314. He has schizophrenia and couldn't possibly work without the medication so it's almost a Catch22 situation.

Damn, schizophrenia and WalMart! That's double jeopardy.

I don't want to derail this thread with too much talk about socialized medicine but the idea has been put forth here that people wouldn't need disability insurance or medicare if they lived careful, seat belted, apple eating lives. That simply isn't true. The number one reason for government funded SSDI is schizophrenia, a disease that strikes young people without reason or known cause. I think the number of people collecting it because they led reckless lives are a very small percentage.

Two separate topics, socialized medicine and disability ins/medicare.
In Marichiko's case, it was the result of something that's easily preventable. If her Mother (landlord) or the management company if there was one, had done the proper maintenance of the heating system, this wouldn't have happened.