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I’m low-income, retired, and disabled. I’m a couple years too young for MediCare (now 63). Before I retired at 62, when alternating with temping and being unemployed, I was able to use Medi-Cal. After I retired I was told by Medi-Cal that I now make too much money ($1,400 a month small retirement pension and regular Social Security) so would now have to "share the cost" when I used Medi-Cal. My share the first time I tried to get my necessary glaucoma eyedrops was $94 a month. No way could I ever pay anything like that. Medi-Cal does not care what a person has to pay out a month — as in how many bills one has and rent increases every year even if one has rent control. So now because of this huge increase I have NO insurance that I can use whatsoever since I have little money left over. I was in danger of going blind until I worked something out myself with my eye doctor. I cannot now afford to see a dentist nor can I get the second hearing aid I need — or anything else. The health care plan being proposed is be much too high for someone like me. I need free or nearly free health care INCLUDING dental and vision. I could pay a small copay like maybe $20 a visit but with all my other bills there is no way I could pay hundreds of dollars a month for a plan. Hopefully when I’m old enough for MediCare, I can get something that will work for me but I dread it because it’s all so confusing. I will have to make an appointment with a Social Security person for this. In the meantime I am one of those with NO medical, dental, or vision now that I cannot afford to pay an additional fee when I use Medi-Cal. So I may as well not have Medi-Cal now at all.
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