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mommyneedsadayoff 01:58 PM 09-15-2016
Originally Posted by Controlled Chaos:
I don't trust the insurance companies either! Like the infomericals say "There has to be a better way!" I don't know what that is...hopefully whoever gets elected can find a way to allow for options (HSAs and the like) and make sure anyone who wants to pay for insurance can. No one should go into debt like that for an illness...its awful. My dad just had his second bonemarrow transplant. He has really good insurance, but I know they have paid over $100,000 in the last year in co pays and premiums, not to mention travel expenses to specialists out of state
My mom had a bone marrow transplant, but also two other major treatments (cannot remember technical names, but one was where they harvest her own cells and try to regrow/change them before putting them back), not to mention 10 years of prescriptions, chemo, hospital stays, ect. Even with the creme de la creme of insurance, they would have paid an arm and a leg to get what they needed at the time. I find insurance and pharma companies to have a major conflict of interest when it comes to profits versus public well being. I just feel that Obamacare did nothing to improve healthcare costs. I think it is just made health insurance more available, but at what cost?
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