Health insurance
Humana cannot find oxygen portable unit for Holy Olier
Posted: 2:31 p.m.
Thursday, Aug. 20, 2015
Only because she is
a Medicaid/Medicare patient!
There are many
providers in Florida and through-out the south only our congress has squashed
Social Security, Medicaid and Medicare so much that they no longer pay for much
needed supplies!
You can bet dollar
for dollar that all of our government officials can get portable oxygen as
needed in less than a day?
Woman trapped in own
home after oxygen tank supplier goes under
ORANGE COUNTY, Fla.
—
An Orange County woman who
uses an oxygen tank to survive said she's been stuck in her house for weeks.
Holly Olier told
Channel 9's Deneige Broom that one of the state's biggest suppliers of health
care equipment for Medicaid and Medicare patients pulled out of the business
and left thousands hanging in the balance.
Olier has Stage 3
lung disease and for the last 15 years has needed a concentrator that plugs
into a wall, or portable oxygen tanks to help her breathe.
For 10 days, Olier
has been unable to get portable oxygen tanks. She has an electric device, but
she can travel only inside her home as far as the cord lets her.
"If I don't
have this, I (can only) take three or four steps," she said.
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