Thread by @SaintRPh

I don’t talk about this much. But I think it’s important I do. My daughter has epilepsy since she was 6 months old. Abnormal eeg. Located the foci. In 2004, December we first went to the ER at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston, TX. 1/

The facility and the medical center in Houston is one of the best in the world. People literally come from all over the world to be treated in Houston, TX. We aren’t but 4 hours from Houston so that’s where we went. 2/

That night in the ER we were seen by the head of the pediatric neurology dept. He diagnosed her with epilepsy after hearing our description

He ordered an eeg and confirmed it. Over the years we have gone several times of years. Always getting prompt and expert service. That changed after 2010 when the affordable care act was passed aka Obamacare 4/

Now let me preface this and say that this facility is not just for people with insurance but for very poor people too. Medicaid helps 100,000s of patients each year. 5/

But since Obamacare the appointments are harder to get, the treatments take longer to schedule. And her neurologist during the early 2010s even said they had to cut the staff there directly because of Obamacare. 6/

Now she may have a second whatevs referred to as psychogenic non epileptic seizures. Which are now happening 3-5 times daily. We couldn’t get and appointment to be seen for months. At the same time she had wanted to go to the local high school instead of homeschool. 7/

This is where the real trouble started. The seizures became worse. She couldn’t do her school work. We had to do homebound through the special ed dept. 8/

it took months while waiting to get an at home 96 hr eeg. at one point after the eeg we drove to houston to the er and were told there was nothing they could do. to see her neurologist. Mirror that with the 2004 er visit. 9/

today we see her neurologist and get a second diagnosis and hopefully a prognosis. But in the meantime we have met roadblock after roadblock. 10/

the affordable care act hurt us. it hurts those on medicaid. And it has hurt the entire medical system in this country. soon we will be a one payer system and i have no clue what her future will be in the health are system. 11/

Obamacare made healthcare more expensive and harder to obtain for us. Im sure there are millions more like my daughter and family that have experienced something similar. 12/

If biden wins and does to the retirement system what Obama did to healthcare, well it’s social security for everyone. Which is the goal in socialism. Everything is fair because everyone is equally miserable. Dont vote for biden this election. -end