Death by Technicality

I know that hospitals are fueled by mounds of paperwork, but needing some arbitrary piece of paperwork for bureaucratic reasons should NEVER be a reason for deferring service to someone with chronic and significant neural damage. Enter the multi-part Medicare system.

Relapsing-remitting MS is known for its unpredictable and episodic behavior. There are few drugs to modify the disease's course (drugs called immunomodulators curiously enough) and they are not noticeably effective except when taken on a regular basis.

But drug and dental coverage are NOT normally included even in basic Medicare...to get those supposedly "unexpected" costs covered requires additional paperwork.

One of those pieces of paper is a proof-of-income letter, which is a notoriously elusive document from the Social Security Administration.

I know various agencies are under-the-gun to perform, but letting people with widely-documented neural damage slip through the cracks because of missing "paper" is just ridiculous...

The very company that I myself voluntarily assisted in testing a new drug formulation is holding up my medication because of a "proof-of-income" letter that I requested from Social Security MONTHS ago...it all just makes me want to shoot myself in the head. I'm NOT a freeloader...I paid 3/4 of a million dollars into Social Security before I turned 40.

And now I see the real goal of the people of the world...bleed their fellow citizens to death with the most ridiculous bureaucracy to pay for botched domestic AND foreign policy. Makes me glad I never graduated from a University, because they're in the business of bleeding citizens to death for money, too. :(

Correction March 28:
When I'm angry, I have a habit of skipping over important words, and this is why I don't recommend being BOTH writer and editor simultaneously. I didn't actually pay 3/4 of a million dollars into Social Security...I paid Social Security taxes on that amount.

My point was that I haven't been collecting Social Security without having paid a fair amount into the system. I don't expect more...just that my contribution to American society not be downplayed by the junior staffs of various companies.