Sharon Keck
I had no idea that without health care you do not get the medical help you need. My daughter is 23 and for the first time she has no medical insurance. With working part time and going to school she could not afford to get any medical. In April she got a boil on her face went to Arrowhead emergency room, tried to get med-cal but was turn down because she made to much money. I would like to know how is making 9000 dollars a year too much to qualify for. Now if my daughter had any children then she would qualify for med-cal. I would like to know what is wrong with our system that the young adults that are trying to go to college and better themselves cannot find affordable health care. Now because my daughter has no medical insurance her future is bleak. I took my daughter three times to an emergency room to get treatment on her leg. Not one of the doctors took her swollen red painful leg serious. Now she is in the hospital with sepsis, the infection went to her lungs and brain and the doctors do not know what her outcome will be. The sepsis in the brain has affected her legs and her right arm. She has no feeling when she has to go to the bathroom. The doctors want her to go home the way that she is all because she has no medical insurance. I am unable to care for her and the social worker at the hospital said that she is to young for a nursing home but she us unable to go to an acute rehab place because she cannot go to rehab for four hours a day. My daughter can no longer take care of herself cannot sit or even get out of bed has not been in a wheelchair yet, but because she has no medical she has no place to go. The hospital has no plan on her welfare. My daughter is disable now and cannot get any help or treatment. This is what is wrong with our medical system, unless you have a child or come from another country, you just cannot qualify for med-cal.
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There is Widespread Support for Reform
 81% of voters agree with the statement "it should be public policy that government guarantee that all Californians have access to affordable health care insurance or other health care coverage."
Source: Field Poll, "California Voter Views of the Health Care System (Part 1 of 2)," January 3, 2007.
 HMO premiums rose nearly 50 percent between 1997 and 2002. The cost of employer-based health care continues to outpace both inflation and wage growth.
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