LETTER TO PRESIDENT OBAMA - JUNE 8, 2014

June 8, 2014

To: President Obama

Dear Sir:

I would like to present the issue of co-pays for medicines and doctor’s visits. Sometimes the co-pays are so restrictive that it sometimes prevents people countrywide from getting their medicines and receiving appropriate doctoral care...I believe that it might be racially motivated against people of poverty or impoverished situations.
The doctor’s co-pays also prevent office visits and a person will not be seen unless the co-pay is paid and irregardless of this the doctor is paid sufficient monies anyway for care provided by the doctor to the patient. I realize that they are valuable, knowledgeable and skilled but a person is more than a co-pay and they should be treated in a humane way and given care anyway and not turned away ill, sickly or possible dying. If help is denied them most patients go to the emergency room and it’s more costly than the doctor’s office and is effectively more costly for insurance companies and the state Medicare and Medicaid program.
Also, affecting people as I reiterate again is the prevention of acquiring medications that leaves a patient in a dire condition of not getting well due to the lack of money to cover the co-pays.

This recession affects everyone and we hope that all co-pays can be phased out by an agreeable contractual meeting with the outcome of yes …let’s rid ourselves of co-pays to meet the needs of the poor, foreign and natives of this country. I sincerely hope this can happen…after all what is $10 or whatever when an oath was sworn to help any person in need irregardless of having the money to pay for assistance. They are dishonoring their oath and if they are dishonoring this then their word is nothing and oath is invalidated and is clearly a lie.

I have been through this scenario and been turned away and could not afford all my medications or get medical service and so has my mom and others due to the costliness and bills that consume available resources. This of course is not their personal burden but I feel that in order to be a servant of physician medicine a person needs to be honest with the most rigid of integrity to help all people in need of medical attention. I wish I could have been a doctor I would turn no one away even if they were of dirty, unclean or filthy. I would just be a facilitator to help that person get the needed help they need. I AM NOT THEIR JUDGE – JUST THEIR FACILITATOR TO BETTER HEALTH AND A BETTER WAY OF LIVING.

Please give my request with all due respect a brief perusal and a serious thought and consideration.
We are anxiously awaiting help and I am always out trying to see what people need most and this is dire and pressing situation and dear to my heart.

Thank you.

Felicia McCaw

Always ready to assist anytime.