Virginia Medicaid is not accessible
Mar. 11th, 2019 03:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
All too much relies on phones, and phones are phones, so they are not accessible.
I have hyperacusis, I have trouble disinguishing voices from other sounds, and I get awful migraines from beeping sounds, ringing sounds, and certain types of music.
I’m trying to find a doctor right. I’ve been trying for several weeks. Unfortunately, there don’t seem to be any local primary care physicians, in network, accepting new patients. I haven’t gotten far enough to find out whether they’re accessible and whether they have accessible contact options, because of the above. I’m hemmed in by impassible highways, and with my disabilities I can’t take the bus.
I was assigned a more distant doctor. After giving up the search for a local doctor, I tried to find accessible contact info for her. No luck. I had to rely on the pain number. So after 3 calls on friday and today, I found that they’d given me the wrong number. And after 2 calls today, with the 1st call dropping because phones calls drop, on the 2nd call I found out that she’s strictly a pediatrician and doesn’t work with patients my age.
P.S. Also there are plans to implement work requirements, and just kick disabled people off Medicaid.