I don’t think any of you have better health insurance than I do, unless you are a minor still living in your parent’s basement. Otherwise it would be hard to beat the program I have been contributing to for the past 13 years of my life. Or so I thought…
My labor union, District Council 37 takes a decent amount of every paycheck for their dues. I certainly don’t mind paying the dues either because I’m proud to be union member. I’m no socialist either but I realize the efforts of labor unions to add to the quality of life for many hardworking Americans.
I have a prescription card which allows me to co-pay $5 for generic medicines. I haven’t used my card since I’ve been employed. To be honest, I haven’t used my Group Health Insurance card since 2002 and I haven’t ever used my union’s prescription card. EVAR. So maybe you can imagine my surprise and disgust when I went to pick up some of my diabetic medicine and found out that my prescription card was invalid.
What the fux is this bullshit?!? Diabetes medicine isn’t covered by my insurance? Shit! I’m not even on insulin yet. This means that my eventual dialysis will be all out of pocket. That shit is really out of pocket. I’ve got a decade of dues taken from me and I can’t even get a discount on some generic medicine.
Who do I blame? The union, for being bitchasses and removing medicine for certain types of ailments and diseases from their program? Do I blame the easier target which is the greedy pharmaceutical industrial complex which prA’li has direct ties to the manufacturing of high fructose corn syrup? Just when I thought my life was fucked the fuck up I got an e-mail from a friend of mine who has NO insurance at all.
My weblog’s spiritual godfather and Hip-Hop historian Ernie Paniccioli sent me a copy of his medical bills for his cancer treatments.
Click here to see this shit fullsize.
Help my dude Ernie offset some of this fuckery by copping one of his books off LuLu.com because he actually gets a percentage of these sales. If you are familiar with his work you know that Ernie’s images are powerfully empowering. Ernie is Hip-Hop.
Hip-Hop doesn’t need anymore jewelry. Hip-Hop needs some real health insurance. Just like the rest of America.
Fuck.
Health insurance is the biggest con-game there is….don’t wanna join the fuck Obama club…but where the hell is this so-called health care reform?
Damn….I went through a situation with my moms (RIP), paying for her meds and health insurance $800.00 a month. People keep sleeping on these hospitals and health insurance. They are not about taking care of the people, but taking money out of your pocket. They do not cure anything, just find away for you to keep coming back.
Ernie I will purchase your book, take care of your self and I hope you beat that cancer.
DP on the real my dude, take care of your self, that diabetes will really have you fucked the fuck up. I’ll holla at you later. Peace.
insurance is the biggest scam ever. All of the money you put into it is NEVER enough…
see social security (yes it IS insurance)
see life insurance (you’re dead, so you don’t know what they give the family)
see car insurance (if you switch, do you get your money back you paid ’cause you never needed it? NO)
and…and…
there was an expose last year on how certain companies take life insurance out on their EMPLOYEES (you know what happened to them), and the family was stuck with the bills while the companies cashed checks.
Stay healthy dP…
hear hear. hip hop needs to rethink a bunch of shit.
co-sign evrything $yk said.
Ernie Paniccioli IS THE TRUTH. let me see whats poppin over there…
this dick head mitt romney gave us all massachuseets people free health care (since 2006) if you just signd up, free dental and all that now he dont wont the rest of the country to have shit. might just make a apointment today get some percs for my back and brain.
[…] “Hip Hop doesn’t need anymore jewelry. Hip Hop needs some real health insurance. Just like the rest of America,” wrote Penn in blog post from earlier this week. […]
chris rock said it best. the money in not in the cure but in the treatment. that joke was funny but so true at the same time. cure something your not goign make more money with the cure. humans who are infected infect others may get together have infected kids. it’s like giving out that first blast for free. they know you going need to come back to get more rocks