Re: My Healthcare Nightmare

Thank you all for your kind comments. I thought I needed to reply. I'm going to pass out more copies of the Michael Moore's movie tonite.

It might not help me, but my hope is it could help someone else.

I'm working toward a solution to my health problems, but still have no access to the healthcare system. I have found physicians that can tell me what's wrong, but none that will help me without some sort of insurance or the means to pay in cash.

For more than 17 years, I owned a software company that employed more than 40 people, and I provided insurance to all of them. Good jobs in the software business that have all since been outsourced to places like India. Interestingly, all of the H1B visa participants that I've run into have health insurance provided by the same companies that used to hire us for our services.

My employees purchased more than 15 houses and maybe 50 cars that I know of. Now the ones I'm still in touch with work at the Home Depot or at the local community college. Most are uninsured.

I can't get insurance because of 2 pre-existing conditions. I was cancelled by the Guardian after missing ONE premium payment. I sent them a check to make it up, but it bounced. After that I was cancelled. I know, it's my fault. I couldn't pay.

My problem today is that there isn't an amount of money I can pay for insurance now - they don't want me as a customer.

I don't qualify for state assistance in the risk pool because I sill have assets worth more than $1000.

I live just outside Hartford CT the insurance capitol of the world, which also happens to be the place where they also deny insurance than anywhere on the planet.

On a recent visit to the emergency room I did find it full of undocumented workers, and the system seemed to work find for them. They all had colds and the flu. I have cancer.

I passed out some copies of SiCKO to a few of them. Harvey Weinstein can sue me if he wants. Maybe that will liquidate my assets to the point I can be insured.

My biggest problem is what i need is not an emergency, even though I've been told that it will kill me soon if it's not treated. Cancer is not an emergency.

What's wrong with this picture?

Since I have know I have been sick, I have been trying to liquidate all of my assets. Not just because I need the money, but because I realize that what they are trying to sell me on TV will never make me happy or most importantly, healthy.

If I could, I'd trade my car, my house, and everything in it for some releif to my health problems, and maybe, god willing, a little sailboat so I could enjoy a few weeks or months of happiness with the woman I love before I die.

I'm trying to do that right now. Should I live in a tent so I could find a cure for my cancer? What will happen if I get sick again?

I think Michael Moore did something very noble and selfless in making this film, even if he does make millions from it.

This film (among other things) has inspired me to try to do noble and selfless things too. I doubt I could ever do anything as big as this film, but I plan to pass out more copies tonight. I'm going to an art opening later tonite, and I hope I run into someone from the insurance business. There are lots of them here. I live just outside Hartford CT, the insurance capitol of the world.

Being sick has led me to try to shed myself of materialism and seek to help others instead of myself.

If you're also not sure what's going to happen to you next, I encourage you to watch another short film too.

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