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Saturday, January 21, 2006
Medicare Woes Take High Toll on Mentally Ill One of my earliest students has been a tragic instance of the pre-medications experiences. Off medications after struggling with a research job for many years, she committed a minor crime -- stealing checks from an organization that she felt had done her wrong. She ended up in jail where she was taken off medications -- the outside supplier to NYC prisoners shortly thereafter was reported to have been fraudulently skimming and not providing same. She slipped into her non-medicated rage state. The judge presiding over mental illness cases turned out to be a 'if you are a good boy or girl, I will let you out, but if you are rude you stay in jail' type. I saw him in action first hand when I tried to see my student appear before him in the long line of cases being run through and had my observations confirmed by her lawyer -- a classmate who undertook her case at my behest who watched the rotten character of the system as long as he could bear the shared pain. Now my student is back in the system again -- presumably raging away -- she had her arm badly broken at one point. The reports on the total disaster that the Bush administration has created with its chaotic reversion to private insurance systems beyond even the ability of experts to figure out -- let alone elderly beginning to lose it or the mentally ill -- obviously designed to maintain the outrageous profits of our increasingly dangerous drug companies . . . ? What words can express one's outrage and contempt for this one among many Republican cruelties in the name of making the rich a bit richer? And so it came crashing down in 1929! .................. Medicare Woes Take High Toll on Mentally Ill By ROBERT PEAR Some patients have relapsed after mix-ups in the first weeks of the new drug benefit kept them from getting their medications. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/21/politics/21drug.html?th&emc=th .................. -- "A war is just if there is no alternative, and the resort to arms is legitimate if they represent your last hope." (Livy) -- Ed Kent 718-951-5324 (voice mail only) [blind copies] http://BlogByEdKent.blogspot.com/ http://www.bloggernews.net Blogger News Network is advertiser-supported, and your visits to our advertisers help BNN to meet its expenses. Help keep us afloat! posted by Ed Kent at 5:37 AM |
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