Flippy - I Rant, You Read
Saturday, May 19, 2007
If Michael Moore (or George W. Bush or Dick Cheney) Want To Donate Money to My Medical Bills
If you don’t know the story yet, you will. It’s part of Michael Moore’s new documentary, ”Sicko”, about HMOs. One of his harshest critics, Jim Kenefick, who owns MooreWatch.com needed money for his wife’s healthcare. An anonymous benefactor came forward with $12,000. Yep, that “anonymous” person was Michael Moore, who included his “generosity” (publicity?) at the end of the documentary. It was both a crappy thing to do, and a nice thing to do. Although, in the end, it does prove Michael Moore’s point about the cost of an average person’s medical care and what people have to go through to pay those costs. Want to see my stack of bills? I’m not even deathly ill, but I’m now chronically ill, which makes the bills endless. I started the year with two co-pays (those were wiped out in the first two weeks of the year), a $500 deductible for pharmaceuticals (which I reached within a month), and a $500 MAXIMUM for pharmaceuticals, which I reached at the end of March. Now, everything I pay for my doctors, my tests, my medicine, is all out of pocket. That $100 - $200 for doctors’ visits, and $500 - $600 for meds, although I’ve cut back on my Protonix because I can’t afford it. I want to look into methadone for pain because it’s so dirt cheap, but I’m afraid of the physical dependency. I’m not afraid of addiction, but physical tolerance is physical tolerance, and there’s nothing you can do about it. So yeah, if my biggest enemies wanted to pay for my healthcare, I’d certainly be happy to take the money. I’d thank them for the help, but still retain the right to dislike them for other reasons. (I do not want money from people I know. Period. I will reject the donations of anyone who’s ever met me for lunch or a hockey game. I’m looking for multi-millionaire benefactors who need a nice medical write-off
