Medicaid for All - one family's experience with the Welfare system and Medicaid - Part I
One family's experience with the Welfare system and Medicaid, my family. Considering I have spent most of my married life in a single income earner situation raising five children, three of whom are special needs with disabilities, (which currently by the way are not receiving the SSI or Medicaid they are entitled too, because of current sidestepping and bureaucracy of the current system we have). I have dealt with all sorts of medical issues under all sorts of insurance schemes and platforms, from HMO's to PPO's to yes, and Medicaid. Yes, over 15 years back, when all five children were little (our youngest was an infant), I lost my job two weeks before the Thanksgiving. Yes, companies are that heartless, that's how great America is. Still though had it not been for a sole project manager and friend who had known the layoffs were coming which were to affect over 40 people, he notified everyone two weeks early that the layoffs were coming on their actual date, the...