My mom just got turned down

**Hellow** · 11-10-2007, 09:13 AM

Originally Posted by Daisy and Delilah

She needs to go to another hospital possibly?? Some hospitals can not turn you down.

Do you have a health department there? With her medical problems, she needs medicaid or something like that. Is she legally on disability? I'm pretty sure she can get some type of help. Tell her to check into it.

Well, our hospital, by law, cannot turn a patient down because of money. My mom has a lawyer trying to get her on medicaid because she has been turned down twice. I dont know why.

**moosmom** · 11-10-2007, 09:47 AM

Reggie,

I'm glad your Mom has a lawyer. Trying to get Social Security Disability Benefits is a long process. It takes 5 months from the time you apply and they get all of her medical records, for them to decide whether or not she qualifies. My guess is that she does.

**Marigold2** · 11-10-2007, 10:04 AM

There are different types of hospitals. County hospitals have to take you, private ones don't really. Country hospitals deal with low income, Medicaid and people who have no insurance.

**jennielynn1970** · 11-10-2007, 10:23 AM

I know it took forever for my father to get approved for disability a few years ago. He's got macular degeneration, and has slowly gone blind (he's got the dry kind where the blood vessels dry up in the eye leaving large black spots). At this point he has practically no vision, can't drive or anything like that, or read anymore. He's got a a tape recorder thing that he can play special tapes on from the blind assoc. and also a special viewer for the TV, but he said even that doesn't do much. He really had to fight to get disability, so it's good your mom has a lawyer helping her out. It's a long and frustrating process.

**Hellow** · 11-10-2007, 10:32 AM

Originally Posted by jenn_librarian

I know it took forever for my father to get approved for disability a few years ago. He's got macular degeneration, and has slowly gone blind (he's got the dry kind where the blood vessels dry up in the eye leaving large black spots). At this point he has practically no vision, can't drive or anything like that, or read anymore. He's got a a tape recorder thing that he can play special tapes on from the blind assoc. and also a special viewer for the TV, but he said even that doesn't do much. He really had to fight to get disability, so it's good your mom has a lawyer helping her out. It's a long and frustrating process.

O, thats bad. Im sorry to hear that about your dad

Originally Posted by Marigold2

There are different types of hospitals. County hospitals have to take you, private ones don't really. Country hospitals deal with low income, Medicaid and people who have no insurance.

The hospital we went to was our county hospital. I dont even think there is a private hospital in our county.