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Originally Posted by unsunghero
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Wow, that does sound bad, even worse they kept you conscious through heart surgery so you had to feel everything. Yikes
Yeah man, heart surgery could indeed be a $250k bill. Sucks your plan had such a high deductible. So insurance covered hundreds of thousands of dollars though? Nice, hell yea
And it is also nice that you have some choices on insurance plans, I guess you learned to look for a good one? I’ve also had co-workers who have left jobs for less pay but better benefits. That’s our responsibility as adults, because once again, health insurance is not a human right
I am lucky I haven’t had such a life threatening event. I am confident I would do my best to survive as you did. I don’t invite life’s challenges on myself, but I don’t back down from them either
And yes, I am middle class. What government program was I pushing again?
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Haha right on friend! We did have decent health insurance plans before the surgery! But by actually utilizing the insurance we were then immediately priced out and they pursued us legally to get us to pay for the surgery instead of them--truly world class!
At no point in our careers did we normalize the idea that paying for insurance and then having to actually use that insurance would actually be a punishment! Ha ha!
If only there was another way friend, but there's not ha ha! This is exactly how things need to be! I choose to believe that no doctors or nurses anywhere else in the world are qualified to do anything at all! Fortunately for us friend, only America has the best doctors and nurses--obviously I don't trust them though, they're medical professionals after all only out to make a quick buck, but we still have the best! My heart surgeon was actually German! Ha ha!