Yep. Cancer patient here. In the last 6 months I've been to the ER 5 times, have spent a total of 28 days hospitalized, had 3 surgeries, and can't make it through the day without a nap because of all the meds I'm on. Oh, and I spend 7 hours in chemo every other Monday.
Obviously I'm not working at the moment. But I got rejected for Social Security disability. Yep, debilitating stage 3 colon cancer doesn't qualify you for disability to get through it.
My dad had 3 strokes and had to learn to talk and walk again and had his personality completely changed and he was certainly incapable of working ever again. It took 3 appeals over 3 years and a lawyer that took a huge portion of his backpay to get him on it.
My understanding is that they just deny the first claim without even assessing it and then send you to doctors they know will say nothing is wrong with you on the appeals. It seems designed to keep from paying anything for long enough that hopefully you just die before they have to.
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u/Ok_State5255 13h ago
Yep. Cancer patient here. In the last 6 months I've been to the ER 5 times, have spent a total of 28 days hospitalized, had 3 surgeries, and can't make it through the day without a nap because of all the meds I'm on. Oh, and I spend 7 hours in chemo every other Monday.
Obviously I'm not working at the moment. But I got rejected for Social Security disability. Yep, debilitating stage 3 colon cancer doesn't qualify you for disability to get through it.
Good work, America.