This is an email I had gotten as a result of sending out an email to a group of friends about a new medication assistance website. This email truly illustrate the problem many people face with trying to access medical care who have no insurance or money to cover the medical costs.

“Thank you and may God truly bless you this day! While I am totally blind and on Medicaid, my wife has become indigent thru the loss of her job as a nurse because of injuries sustained at work. We recently moved to NC from SC. We did this primarily because we thought there would be better medical resources for her here. We quickly got our street education on the free care system. You are quite right when you say that we indeed need to be on our knees for this sorry state of American medical affairs. Until you, with no thought of yourself or your own glory, sent [person A] at [place A] this message, I didn’t know how we were going to get my wife’s medicine. We have been unsuccessful so far at getting her into the free care system. We have filed for Medicaid on her behalf but have not received an answer yet. We are currently sitting on $25,000.00 worth of hospital and medical bills because of a fall she took Easter Sunday. I just got her back home with me June first, we have been married 23 years and spent our 23-RD anniversary, May 22-ND; apart due to this incident. Again I hope you will pray for us and may God richly bless you this day!

Quite Sincerely: D…

P.S. Some times, I think we can best learn from what our Lord did not do when confronted with a situation, as in the following example.

When Jesus walked on the Earth, he did his best for every blind beggar he came in contact with; he healed them! What he did not do but could have done was to whip off a loaf of bread and two fishes so the man wouldn’t have to beg for food that day. Instead, he restored his sight! Now, the man could go get a job as a chariot driver or something to support himself.

Please know that you have done your best this day and I love and thank you for it!!! ”

This was the email I sent out & included it here in case someone may find it helpful.

“Hi Everyone,

Please pass this along to anyone you know who may need help paying for prescription medications or anyone who works with people who may need help paying for their medications. This is good for the elderly, working class, people with no medical insurance or no Rx drug coverage or just about anyone. Anyway check it out, save the website in your favorites and pass it along to others.

I hope this will help many folks. Now we need a similar program that helps with medical care & especially something that helps with the medical expenses of treatable conditions that would result in a full recovery. There are too many folks out there needing hip replacements, heart valve replacements, and other surgeries but they have no medical insurance and no job because they either can’t work or told are by their employer they can’t work and consequently they are terminated despite it being morally and legally wrong. What’s wrong with this country that there is no help for folks like this. They talk about on the news that people are going to the emergency room for medical care they should be receiving in the doctor’s office. Well there are too many communities where the “clinics set up to serve the indigent” are refusing to treat them because they charge them for the visit and they have no money. They are told not to come back until they pay their bill and if they need medical care to go to the emergency room. It’s sad but those who work with this population or are among this population know it’s a sad fact. Please pressure your elected officials to act on this and demand something be done about this health care crisis. Please pray for this country. It’s really a sad state the problems in the healthcare system in the US. Something has to be done.”