Washington is good and so progressive in so many ways. It’s amazing to have better care of the environment and public transit and have an actual city that people live and not just commute to.
But god is it annoying that some of the medical resources are either so prohibitively expensive only the super rich can afford them or not available at all! If you don’t have a rich partner, there’s many doctors if you have complex and poorly understood conditions that don’t take insurance! I know this exists elsewhere but not taking insurance seems to be way more common here.
Even for relatively simple things that I’ve been searching for like getting a nurse to come give me a peripheral IV to so I can administer saline help with a hypovolemic episode at my house when I can’t leave it. I’m told is impossible, yet it is something I had when I needed within 2 days in a red state! It’s been a month of chasing answers to just be told no no one does that.
I know this city has left a lot of people out to try, I just wish disabled people like myself didn’t have to struggle to get the care we needed so much
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