Disabled - Mental Illness - Need Prescription Asst.-SSDI Over Requirements
I am 47, disabled after working 27 years as a paralegal with a mental illness. My SSDI is 22,560, 1880/month. All programs out there to help assist me get medications I need for physical and mental illnesses are denying me as they say my salary is over the income elegibility.
I have a very important question. The prescription assistanct programs of the pharmaceutical companies are not suppose to discriminate against you in your decision based on you race, age or in this case disability.
So, under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Article 26 I believe, everyone has the right to health. Well, I was thinking that I believe I am being discriminated against because of my disability because it is because of my disability that is why I am making the income I am which puts me in a bracket to receive no gov't help, or private help. I moved to MD from VA in June. In VA, I received helped with some of my medications I don't know how but here I have been denied and having been denied, I can tell you I will not be able to afford the medications that I need until I get medicare in Sept. 2007. My medications are premarin, synthroid, famvir, zetia, temazepam, abilify, adderall XR (which is 568.00 alone), prozac, klonopin, pilocarpin and I need phengren and mycelex wafers on hand, I also need to be able to get glucose monitoring strips. My diagnosis for which I am disabled is major depression recurrent with psychotic features and adhd. However, I also have Sjogrens Syndrome and Hashimotos Thyroiditis. Since I cannot afford to by all the medications I need like pilocarpin which helps with my saliva glands in my mouth, they stop working properly, which leads to infrection in my mouth and severe pain. I figured my medicines since moving here in MD will be about 1339 a month and that does not include my 450 month rent 250 month food, gas, dr. visits, lab work, etc. So, I am praying to God someone will read this and tell me if I have a legitimate theory behind the discrimination I have received because of my disability which caused the salary and I am not getting the Right to Health as indicated in the Universal Bill of Rights. I have been suffering from depression mainly the last 10 years each about getting worse to the point I had a breakdown and although I tried to work I lost three jobs in six months. Prior to that I had excellent work habits and raised to boys and put them through college. I feel like a failure and I know if someone does not help me I am going to end up giving up because I just cannot keep fighting this system. I am not one to live off the system but I seriously need the system to help me. If the system fails me and there are no loopholes or anyway to help me, I am only going to get worse and not be able to afford the medication and be dead before I will be able to collect Medicare in Sept. 2007 which maybe that is what the gov't wants because I don't understand how they give you such an amount every month based on having been used to living off 66,000 a year and then do not afford you the availability of insurance because your income is too high. So how on earth do they expect you to get better. I feel like what is the since of trying anymore because everyone keeps shutting their door in my face and I honestly need the help. Thank you for your time. So if you can make sense of this mess I wrote please give me some advice if you can.