Fuckful Friday: Good Fucking Luck

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50 Fucks Given #58

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: the body.

Marcel Proust

I’ve been terribly sick for a week and since I’m out of state, my Medicaid is useless, even at the hospital unless it is truly an emergency of incapacitation, life or death. I went to hospital out of state once, after an accident caused by a drunk driver, but because insurance and a police report were involved, Medicaid refused to cover it.

So, I found out the hard way with a $2,000 bill that even in emergencies, state Medicaid may refuse to pay, honoring the longstanding U.S. tradition of telling the sick and impoverished, Good [fucking] luck.

In case anyone needed a reminder that people continue to need healthcare across arbitrary state lines. This country is perpetually exhausting.