Nearly a year ago another chronic pain pt and myself trying to raise a legal “war chest” to help with lawsuits against various entities. Our goal.. we thought .. was rather modest… to get abt 1% of the chronic pain community to donate – one time – the cost of a fast food meal – $5.00. That would have created a FIVE MILLION DOLLAR fund to move forward… After abt one month.. upwards of a couple of dozen people had made donations … totaling some $600 and change … including two people contributing $100 each. The project was dropped and the donations were refunded to those who had donated.
Then there is the article that I published today:
If you are disabled…your life is not worth enough for attorneys when harmed by the medical system
That suggested that unless you are a high income person and experience a disability or death from a medical error… your chances of finding an attorney to take your case on a contingency basis is between SLIM & NONE. And we know from a survey published several months ago 90% of families with a chronic pain pt.. either the disease itself – pt can’t work – or the cost of treating the disease… caused a financial hardship on the family.
Maybe there is a “money trail” here that is unseen.. The anti-opiate group is positive that there is a connection between prescribing opiates and abuse/addiction to opiates. They fail to see the lack of connection of opiate Rxs peaked in 2012 and OD’s continue to increase.. so the DEA in 2014 moved Vicodin type products to C-II and the OD’s continue to increase.. so in 2016 we have CDC opiate guidelines and we will have to see their next move in 2018 as OD’s continue to climb.
Many of these new CDC and State guidelines have non-opiate therapy recommendations… many which is not covered by insurance and pts cannot afford.. so being non-compliant with these non-opiate therapies as a reason to DISCHARGE THE PT FROM THE PRACTICE ?
Shifting therapy to non-covered therapy, lowering the daily opium limits, anticipating less people with “opiate abuse disorder”… all of it costing the system – Medicare/Medicaid/insurance companies money.
While there seems to be no direct “death panels” as feared with Obamacare.. there is definitely is the evolution of “denial of care panels”…
At CVS: “HEALTH IS EVERYTHING” … Cuts Coverage of Dozens of Drugs in Exclusion Expansion
This is the 3rd – 4th year in a row that CVS Health, Express Scripts and other PBM’s have removed dozens of medications that they will no longer pay for.
Vote for whoever you want – things won’t change ! OMG !
Then this article suggests that there is a “closed door Federal government” ran by un-elected bureaucrats/regulators… so you can vote in/out of office all you want and you can sign all the petitions… it would appear that either no one is paying attention or the ones that are paying attention have no ability to effect change.
It is reported that 200 million deaths each year are caused by medical errors, but you don’t hear much about this EPIDEMIC because they are the chronically ill and who’s life – according to our legal system – has little value ?
Maybe those with chronic diseases should divert some of the money they are collecting to find a cure… and put it into a “legal war chest” to start addressing the denial of care that is a growing problem.. Maybe it is just a “thinning of the heard of what is considered ‘takers’ ” and take the burden off of the “makers”
If you don’t read the “road signs”.. you may end up being “road kill” 🙁
Filed under: General Problems
I am sharing this incredible and very important document because it is the basis in which our entire governmental structure is supposed to be based on. NOT A SINGLE ELECTED OFFICIAL OR GOVERNMENT AGENCY IS CURRENTLY FOLLOWING THIS MAP TO DEMOCRACY. If every person in the United States were to read this Declaration of Independence, each and every person would be disgusted with our government and be able to associate what’s going on today with what was going on 240 years ago with English rule. This Foundation for Democracy tells every one of the citizens of the United States that if government is no longer working for the people and it becomes self-serving that it is our right and our duty to remove the current government and replace it with a new one. PLEASE ENJOY IT BECAUSE WHEN I RE-READ IT I GOT CHILLS.
The Declaration of Independence: A Transcription
IN CONGRESS, July 4, 1776.
The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies; and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid world.
PAY ATTENTION TO THE PART ABOUT ABSOLUTE DESPOTISM!!!!!!THAT IS THE EXACT LINE AND OTHER’s I USED IN MY LETTER TO THE U.N…..and they are so far,,thee only 1’s that have responded to our crys for help!!!when I asked a lawyer about filing formal; charges against ,”our” government for violation of the Declaration of Independence,,,he said the Declaration is not law,,,,,it is a natural law,,and thus not defensible in a court of law,,,,that should tell us ALL,, the sorry shape ,”our” country has become,in,,,sadl;y,,but hopefully,,,30 years ,,we will be in another revolution,,,because it truly is needed,,,,sadly,,,mary
It is really a shame that the simple project that you tried to get off the ground was met with apathy and resistance. It is exactly why we are in this sorry shape.
pss..I suggest adults w/true chronic physical pain to start their own medicinal garden now,,,seriously,,if our meds get taken,which it truly does appear its gonna happen,,unless they are stopped,,we will be left w/nothing,like soo many others,,These prohibitionist don’t want the truth exposed,and are doing everything in their power via media and refusing to acknowledge petition or letters etc…I myself are looking into ”medicinal gardens” .Just like u can get lavender oil,,,u can get medicinal oil,,,called lavender oil extraction kits,,,I am, not going be forced to live my life in physical pain,,mine occurs w/simpley breathing,,They r not going to force me to suffer in physical pain from medical illness!!!!!!!!!!!!!!MARYW
Mary-
I like the way you think!!
Mr.Pstones,,,just thinken ahead,,,soo I can exercise my god given rite to a living life…maryw
OOPS,,, forgot my email.Soo again,,,what about thee International Court Of Law,,,via U.N.????mary