Following receipt of our August 13, 2009 e-mail blast to our 68,000 constituents titled Get Involved-Health Care Reform and Congress-13 Principles to Consider, a gentleman asked to be removed from our mailing list. He was in his fifties and has lived with AD/HD his entire adult life. He commented tha...
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Insurance
ADDbuster
Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 11:16 AM
As an ADD adult living in Canada I got diagnosed about 6 months ago after visiting hell a few times and seeing suicide as a logical thing to do. I obviously crossed that stage even knowing i would not do anything stupid like that, but being in a state of mind that finds this logical and good is not where I want to be ever again. All this because of damn ADD, now I am unemployed as I lost 2 good jobs and that triggered a path on a stairway to hell that eventually led to my diagnosis. Now in Canada we have free good healthcare but drugs that I need to basically survive my days are not covered. If you have insurance with an employer then you pay 20% or so which is fine. I now have to pay from my pocket for Adderall XR (about $3.5 a pill), I am in debt big time due to my failures, I have a family that needs my support. So I pay from my pocket while getting in more debt, we ADDers are stuck like a record sometimes. what caused our messes is the reason we are with no job and no job means no insurance. OH and I cannot try to find a job without my meds that cost me around $200 a month, I stared at my pc for 3 months and could not finish my resume. So I think people with real challenges like mine should be treated as special cases because they are, and they cannot take care of themselves because they are disabled without meds and cannot do what needs to be done to get them. Now this is unfair like not many things I have seen. It is like telling the towing company please pick me up I am in the middle of nowhere and they say you have to come here so we can help you, we dont care how you do it but you have to do it. ugly............ I am for it all the way.
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ADDbuster
Thursday, October 29, 2009 at 11:21 AM
Having said that are there any organizations that can help with meds mainly........I think that the government should move their asses as I think it is a violation of human rights of some sort to not help people who cannot help themselves...............
As an ADD adult living in Canada I got diagnosed about 6 months ago after visiting hell a few times and seeing suicide as a logical thing to do. I obviously crossed that stage even knowing i would not do anything stupid like that, but being in a state of mind that finds this logical and good is not where I want to be ever again. All this because of damn ADD, now I am unemployed as I lost 2 good jobs and that triggered a path on a stairway to hell that eventually led to my diagnosis. Now in Canada we have free good healthcare but drugs that I need to basically survive my days are not covered. If you have insurance with an employer then you pay 20% or so which is fine. I now have to pay from my pocket for Adderall XR (about $3.5 a pill), I am in debt big time due to my failures, I have a family that needs my support. So I pay from my pocket while getting in more debt, we ADDers are stuck like a record sometimes. what caused our messes is the reason we are with no job and no job means no insurance. OH and I cannot try to find a job without my meds that cost me around $200 a month, I stared at my pc for 3 months and could not finish my resume. So I think people with real challenges like mine should be treated as special cases because they are, and they cannot take care of themselves because they are disabled without meds and cannot do what needs to be done to get them. Now this is unfair like not many things I have seen. It is like telling the towing company please pick me up I am in the middle of nowhere and they say you have to come here so we can help you, we dont care how you do it but you have to do it. ugly............ I am for it all the way.