I've pondered writing this review for quite some time. I didn't want to get my redheaded temper involved so I've remained mum and I've simply sat back and waited.
As the days, weeks, and months have turned into years I've tried to tell myself that there has to be a legitimate excuse for why I'm still sitting here suffering.
I didn't want to believe what was becoming quite obvious because it hurt too much.
I'd like to believe that we as humans are better than this. That we help people because it's the right thing to do.
That our society isn't just about profit, but also about caring for each other. As human beings are meant to do.
However, I must accept the reality of
This situation regardless of how painful it is. Both physically and emotionally.
I think over a year of self-delusion is long enough. Simply put, I have crappy dental insurance. The worst of the worst. Unfortunately, I'm disabled by Multiple Sclerosis. I know. Sucks to be me. I'm too young for one program, too old for the other, and here I am. 53 years old, my life down the drain. My dreams disappearing and my prospects for a brighter future, dissipating before my eyes.
I must accept that I am now a victim of the system. A broken, Ill-equipped, a governmental hierarchy that doesn't give a crap about me or you.
I could sit here forever and suffer in silence like they would like or I can speak up and as you can see, I chose the latter option. Because, even though I'm physically disabled, I'm still mentally all there.
I still have a top-notch education to fall back on which is more than many of my also suffering friends and neighbors have and unlike Coast Dental, I care about people. My core isn't based solely on the monetary system, but on simply right and wrong.
To technically accept "Medicaid" is one thing, to actually treat patients is another. Active and knowing avoidance? absolutely!
Over a year I have waited. One excuse after another. My appointments canceled for me, right up to the time I've arranged for transportation to get there. Days orchestrated to align with much needed dental appointments, exams not happening, specialists promised. Over and over. never delivered. My hope stripped away from my soul piece by piece. Little by little. Week after week, month after month. Now year after year and still here I sit. Suffering in silence and an ever-dwindling faith in simple humanity.
It sucks to accept that I'm unimportant in the grand scheme of things. My good deeds were meaningless. Who I was, unimportant. Who I am, nobody that matters and who we've become, a society of cold, uncaring, money-driven, subhumans, who allow the weakest among us, our poor , our disabled, Our cripples, our most vulnerable citizens, to be treated or should I say, not be treated by our healthcare system, our government and yes, Coast Dental. You are as much to blame as the system itself. Broken, soulless. Sadistic.
You should be ashamed of yourself.
Yet I don't think you are. You'd have to care in order to feel shame and it's obvious.. that is the last emotion you've felt for me and I'm sure, many others just like me.
What to do? I haven't a clue. I guess keep suffering until we die and carry on business as usual.I think the realization is as painful as my mouth. I'm in a great deal of pain no doubt. The shame though, for my country, it's citizens, suffering human beings, people, like you and me and all of us collectively, are suffering. You don't feel the physical pain like me but the societal woes that come from treating your fellow man inhumanely will inevitably taint all of us. The big picture isn't pretty and I certainly didn't want to paint it..but I have a responsibility to do something, say something. Speak out for not just me. I'm not that selfish. But for everyone. This just isn't right. We're better than this. I'd hoped so anyway. read more
