My friend has not worked in 10 years. When she did work it was little more than folding clothes at a department store. She receives state funded health care, but she would like to work again and receive her own health care. One medicine she takes costs the government $13,500 a year. There are no generics that will substitute for it.
She doesn’t care if she makes a lower wage with her lower skill set and experience, but she needs excellent health care that covers expensive medications like the state does.
She doesn’t want to work just to pay expensive out of pocket copays. She wants to work, make a mediocre wage and have most of these health costs covered.
Unless she can be provided with the means to leave the system, she would be forced to stay on the system for survival.
I am scratching my head because I have no idea how to help her other than to tell her to play lotto every week and hope for a miracle.
