I’m in a ranting place and I’m not - well not entirely - a ranting person…

I’ve just gotten off the phone with yet another women who is not getting access to the care that’s right for her because payers are unwilling to pay for it.  The right care for her - which is also by the way not more expensive, actually less in both the cost to the insurer (myomectomy vs. focused ultrasound) and significantly less in the socio-economic sense (time off of work).

Not only has she had to have a blood transfusion because her fibroids have caused excessive bleeding, but she’s missed time from work, her life is on hold and I do feel like a small child in that I want to stomp my feet on the ground and scream!

So, maybe my generally grounded yogic self is a bit of a ranter…this is something to rant about. I sat on the phone yesterday fighting back tears while listening to a women with three children all of which have cancer, and her son is out of options for his cancer that has metastasized - in fact, there aren’t options.  This is not the same thing - there are options for fibroids and yet there are women, just like you and I, out there struggling and it IS WRONG.

All of us should care about this and other healthcare injustices and disparities.  The right care for a person should be given to him or her and access should not be controlled by profit-driven insurance companies.  And admittedly they’re not all bad - there are reasons for them (the rational being in me speaking here) but when a women is fainting and has to have a blood transfusion and then told that she can go have surgery - surgery that will have her off work more, out of her life more…yes, I’m ranting and yes, the way this woman and others are treated is ABSOLUTELY WRONG.