America is the top worse for Healthcare. I say this because I hear we are richest country. To me a country who can't or won't take care of the most vulnerable is a shit hole country.

I had to go out on fmla several years ago. They only gave you 90 days officially, but since my boss liked me they waited till 120 to fire me. The other fun part is that short term disability only gave out a fraction of my income, AKA, not enough to pay rent & eat and stuff.

If your insurance has any sort of short term disability insurance, check it out. It's pennies, but it's better than no pennies.

In the interest of turning it around to the plus side … I had to do this pre-fmla and got bupkis. I totally agree with your assertion, except fmla was one tiny step in the right direction many years ago. It’s not that fmla is horrible but that it was only the first step and we need to take the next step, and we need to walk faster

Sorry to hear that...

Jesus, America doesn't even have short term medical leave? Dafuq?

I could take up to 2 years off, and be paid 80% of my income the entire time. At that point, if I needed more, it would switch to medical unemployment, and would last as long as necessary at 60% of my income. It does require a doctor to sign off, but that makes sense since otherwise people would just abuse it.

It's utterly ridiculous. I'm not American but why can't we all be civilized?

I hope you get things sorted. I was diagnosed with RA about five years ago and it's been hell. I'm just starting to get sort of back to normal.