Just seeing what you think about this:

Recently. July 2007, my wife had a stroke. It did not affect her physically but it affected her mental abilities to an extent that she could no longer fulfill the duties of her employment position so she had to take a medical leave from Palo Alto Nursing.

Palo Alto Nursing required her to bring in papers from the doctors as an excuse for being off work and therefore collecting medical disability from the State of California. I know she brought in these papers because I was with her and present when she handed them over.

In November 2007 Palo Alto Nursing terminated her employment saying she didn’t turn in the papers and the lady she handed them to (in front of me) says she never got them. She tried to better herself and took a 2 hour a day job at a drug rehab house cooking. It brought in very little money but it was a start.

In any event they laid her off and had someone from the house do the cooking so she is unemployed again. I went back to work at Durham School Services (I have worked there since 1997) I make a decent wage but not really enough to support 2 people in California.

In any event I now have been off work for 10 days due to an eye infection that prevents me from driving a school bus. But finally I get my Kaiser Insurance. So we make appointments for my eye and a nasty infection my wife got next to the bridge of her nose. I go in to my appointment at 11:00 am and have to pay a $30.00 co-pay (That’s almost 2 hours work for me right there). The doctor see’s me and listens to MY diagnoses and concurs with it (since I have had it on and off all my life) then she decides not to prescribe ANY treatment for me instead refers me to Kaiser Ophthalmology Dept way over in Santa Clara to see me at 4 pm.

Now at 2:00 pm my wife has a appointment with her doctor in Santa Clara Kaiser so we go to that (another $30.00 co-pay) but at least they treated her.

4 pm rolls around and we head to the 4^th floor to see the doctor, and they want another $30.000 to see the doctor I cancelled my appointment right there.

That would have been $90.00 just for doctors on top of the outrageous amount the collect monthly just to join the damn program and the $30.00 we spent on medicine while we were there.

WHERE DOES IT STOP?

Email me what you think please !!! howarddully@comcast.net