Northerner
Admin (Retired)
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Running out of insulin to control his diabetes, Linn Paulley tried to make a doctor?s appointment at Family Health Centers-Portland, a low-cost clinic serving the poor and uninsured in western Louisville.
But there were so many uninsured patients like him that he said he had to wait three months to get in ? and in the meantime went about eight weeks without insulin, had to go to the emergency room twice and landed in the hospital overnight when his blood sugar spiked out of control.
?I needed an appointment quicker,? said Paulley, 52, a former flooring worker and janitor. ?But there?s nothing you can do.?
http://www.courier-journal.com/arti...-economy?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|Features|p
Heaven forfend it should ever happen here
But there were so many uninsured patients like him that he said he had to wait three months to get in ? and in the meantime went about eight weeks without insulin, had to go to the emergency room twice and landed in the hospital overnight when his blood sugar spiked out of control.
?I needed an appointment quicker,? said Paulley, 52, a former flooring worker and janitor. ?But there?s nothing you can do.?
http://www.courier-journal.com/arti...-economy?odyssey=mod|newswell|text|Features|p
Heaven forfend it should ever happen here