Starting to understand why red states might be voting against Medicaid and SSI

[hollowdweller]

26. Here's 2 funny (sort of ) stories about that.

OK so when I worked I had a co worker who lived in a trailer park in an old coal camp.

She had this female surgery and the doctor gave her a huge bottle of Lortabs to take home.

So she took a few, but her pain went away fairly quickly.

However she had to pay her deductible for the surgery so she sold the rest of the Lortabs to the people in her trailer park to make her deductible


I was at another friends house, talking to a pal he worked with at Olive Garden. When the guy asked me what i did and I said I did disability claims he told me he was recovering from 2 burst cervical vertebra in his neck

As he detailed his recovery he said that "six months ago they cancelled my prescription for Vicodin" .

"That's great" I said, meaning that meant he had recovered to the point he did not need the narcotics.

"Well, not exactly" he said. "I hadn't been taking my vicodin for a year. When I worked as a roofer I made 22 dollars an hour. Even though I recovered I can never do that job. Now I make 10 dollars an hour at Olive Garden.
So I was selling my Vicodin to pay for my child support and truck payment. Now I'm coming close to having to declare bankruptcy"

So there's 2 people, they had a legitimate reason to get the drugs but economic reasons they were selling them instead.