I'm stuck going without my diabetes medication. My doctor isn't completely certain it's working well enough, without me paying for blood tests. So of course, the solution isn't to maintain the status quo until I can afford the damn blood test. It's to refuse to refill my prescription *at all*, ruining the usefulness of any subsequent blood test and forcing me to feel like complete shit and face unnecessary health risks. And they think it's acceptable, somehow, to fob me off on a free clinic that doesn't even exist. Meanwhile, icy weather sets in so even the free clinic that I eventually did find on my own can't see me for another week.

Why do doctors think it's appropriate to act like money grubbing gatekeepers for my health instead of healthcare providers? This is not acceptable, *at all*.