I don't know if this is the best 99% photo or just the saddest!

[sce56]

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Since 2009, I have attempted suicide 3 times. After each attempt, I was hospitalized. When I was “stable,” my insurance company stopped paying and I was sent home with more meds and follow-up care. My erratic moods left me unable to commit to appointments. I was forced to care for my own mental health, despite not having a healthy mind. My insurance company abandoned me.

But I am one of the lucky ones. I was finally diagnosed with borderline personality disorder. I am properly medicated. My moods are stable. I am in a good place.

Private insurance companies behave as though mental illness is fake. They go so far as to re-label it “behavioral health,” as if we are naughty children who need a time out.

I should never have had my insurance cut the minute I was stable. Stable is not healthy. To them, I am a dollar, not a HUMAN.

We are the 99%. Occupywallstreet.org.






This year my Grandma lost her job contract and my Grandpa had an on the job accident (which lead to his unemployment.) Dad drives a motorcycle to work (50 miles a day) because car insurance is expensive with ruined credit. Mom home makes because she can’t find a job worth the added expenses of transportation and daycare, minus taxes. She wants to go to college but knows the debt is not worth it. We are considered middle class but that gap is closing fast as prices keep going up. How long will my luck last?

occupywallst.org

[snot]

1. K&R'd.

[Hissyspit]

2. "To them, I am a dollar, not a human..."

[Marazinia]

4. These stories don't scratch the surface

It's everywhere, all the way from the middle class so deep in debt that even they are one emergency away from having nothing to people who are on the street with their entire families.

This is the American nightmare.

[Moostache]

7. They are also dollars - campaign dollars - to the DINOs in congress as well.

The healthcare reform law may have been the best we could hope for - we'll never know because the whole thing started from the wrong spot and only negotiated against itself from there - but what it does NOT do is take the profits and private insurance out of the system.

In a very real sense, President Obama also sees patients as dollar signs and not as human beings because he was all too willing to put his name and his legacy on a half-measure instead of fighting to bring his nation into the present company of civilization - that place where healthcare is NOT viewed as a profit center.

I'm tired of celebrating being "less bad" than the alternative; especially when the Republicans seem to hit new lows almost daily (see Herman Cain or Rick Perry over the last week for clear examples of this...).

[Sherman A1]

3. The second one is in my opinion the best and

the answer to any questions as to why people have had enough with the current state of affairs.

[Enthusiast]

5. Just wait till they cut medicaid, medicare and social security.

Eventually we will all be in the streets, except for the 1%.

[duhneece]

6. So, so sad.

Hopeless despair leading to suicide is the saddest death, I think.