HE hasn't slept in 3 days. He is undone and angry.
Kagman proprietor William Tracy, 45, stood during a dilemma of Isa Drive and Capitol Hill Road yesterday to demonstrate his disappointment over his inability to get his drugs by Medicaid.
Benigno Fitial
"I censure [Gov. Benigno R.] Fitial for not relating a funds," pronounced Tracy as he complained that use providers would not accept Medicaid since a CNMI supervision unsuccessful to compare a sovereign Medicaid funds.
"The sovereign supervision has a funds. They have $14 million for Medicaid. Governor Fitial has to compare those supports so that Medicaid can compensate a providers - a pharmacies."
Tracy pronounced he has been on Medicare A and B, Medicaid and Part D Medicare.
"I can't get Part D of Medicare since we have Medicaid. Medicaid is ostensible to cover my prescriptions," he said.
Medicare Part D, or Medicare remedy drug benefit, is a sovereign module to finance a costs of remedy drugs for Medicare beneficiaries in a U.S.
Tracy pronounced he has been holding 400 drugs a month.
"Those are for pain and post-traumatic highlight disorder."
In 1993, he was stabbed in a chest 8 times on Guam.
"When we nap we see a guy's face that stabbed me. That is since we take a sleeping pills. we haven't slept in 3 days," he said.
"I also have to take my remedy for PTSD and bipolar disorder," he added.
He pronounced he was hospitalized for 3 days final month.
But again, he said, Fitial did not compare a supports for Medicaid.
"The pharmacies didn't get paid. They cut off everyone's medication," Tracy said.
He can usually buy some though not all of his medications.
"My life is kind of like drum coaster since we am off and on these medications. It is scary. You can't tell what kind of mood we am going to be in," he said.
He pronounced some consider he is "nuts" and was thrown into jail final month since he was protesting right opposite from a courthouse.
"I was laying on a futon and a military arrested me since we wouldn't get up," he said.
"They took me to a hospital, checked me for drugs and ethanol and they shot me with hypnotic and took me to jail," he said.
He pronounced his criticism yesterday was his fourth.
Asked if someone else came over and talked to him, he pronounced Commonwealth Health Center CEO Juan N. Babauta betrothed to help.
Tracy pronounced someone from a Department of Public Lands forsaken by and told him that he should get a assent which, he added, he would do as shortly as he was finished giving interviews.
Tracy pronounced he has common his conditions online around Twitter and contacted Republican presidential claimant Mitt Romney and Fox News personalities.
Tracy, who has 6 children, pronounced he receives a bound income from a sovereign government.
"I get $751 a month from SSDI and $452 from food stamps."
However, he said, his food stamp allocation was reduced to $370 a month final March.
"I am really undone and we don't know what to do. we don't have a additional income for medication," he added.
A former blurb steel framer, Tracy pronounced he used to acquire $110,000 a year.
"I am seeking a people of Saipan to contend something about it. Let's get this problem taken caring of," he said, referring to a islands' medical crisis.
Asked for comment, Press Secretary Angel Demapan said, "I don't see how a administrator is to censure here."
He added, "The CNMI supervision disbursed $2.5 million in Medicaid payments a few weeks ago. While a supervision has paid some of a smaller balances in full, payments for incomparable balances are being done in increments. Unfortunately, a supervision has reached a budgetary boundary for internal relating supports and so needs to try choice sources of appropriation to cover a remaining balances due to private providers. Discussions are now ongoing with Medicaid to residence these budgetary stipulations and probable solutions that a supervision can relief of."
Demapan pronounced a Fitial administration has already spent a internal relating supports for Medicaid pursuant to a boundary prescribed by a stream mercantile year's bill act, as introduced and upheld by both a House and a Senate.
Tracy pronounced since of a administration's new policy, he can go to CHC and private hospital though all he could get are prescriptions.
The pharmacy does not give him drugs because, he was told, a internal Medicaid bureau has not paid them.
Two months ago, a Center of Medicare and Medicaid's informal bureau authorized a Fitial administration's revised devise for Medicaid. This restricts Medicaid patients to a Commonwealth Health Center, a Rota Health Center, a Tinian Health Center and a Transitional Living Center on Navy Hill.
Medicaid patients can go to private clinics though usually if CHC certifies that it can't yield them a medical services they need.
"Medicaid is ostensible to be assisting us. Please give Medicaid a income to compensate a providers. That is what we need," Tracy said.
He pronounced he went to a internal Medicaid bureau though he was suggested to go to a Legislature and ask a lawmakers to suitable a internal relating account for Medicaid.
"That's what they told me. All we need are my medications."