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I was diagnosed with testicular cancer. Took care of. it It was caught it early. I racked up a $45,000 doctor bill in 3 weeks. Paid off about $5,000 and fell behind on other payments because I had an infant daughter that took priority. The hospital is suing me for the remainder, and interest, including legal fees. We're now attempting to sell our house quickly before it gets foreclosed. The hospital that saved my life is ruining it. Cause... you know... we ain’t no socialists!!!
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I don't wanna link the exact words or the person. Just say what you think after reading it
Set up a payment plan with the hospital. People do that all the time. And honestly, what was he doing starting a family before he had a decent nest egg saved? One serious childhood illness/injury would have put him in the same boat. WHY are SO many people SO irresponsible?
Sadly, this post is indicative of what a lot of people are going through with medical bills. If you have poor insurance (or no insurance), you are saddled with extremely high out of pocket costs. I had thyroid cancer MANY years ago and the bills were eye-opening even 20 years ago.
I understand this person's frustration. I don't like the fact that he seems to be blaming the hospital for going after, aggressively, what they are owed. He's doing what he can to make it right by selling his home.
I doubt if the child were not around he'd be magically able to pay off $45,000. I have two grown children now and I don't know one person (save for the one who waited until she was 41 years old to have her first child) who waited until they have $100,000 in the bank, a paid for home, etc, before they had a child.
My husband and I didn't start our family until we were in fairly good financial position.
Worked out well until one of our babies had a serious medical issues that our insurance would only partially cover. Our portion of the bill ate up our nest egg in a heart beat and put us on a payment plan for years.
Heaven help this poor guy if the baby has a medical issue.
Got to love our govt/crony health care system. Best solution? A completely free market health care system (i.e. no state involvement anywhere). Watch prices fall and services rise as health care providers compete for the dollars of the ill.
Sadly, this post is indicative of what a lot of people are going through with medical bills. If you have poor insurance (or no insurance), you are saddled with extremely high out of pocket costs. I had thyroid cancer MANY years ago and the bills were eye-opening even 20 years ago.
I understand this person's frustration. I don't like the fact that he seems to be blaming the hospital for going after, aggressively, what they are owed. He's doing what he can to make it right by selling his home.
I doubt if the child were not around he'd be magically able to pay off $45,000. I have two grown children now and I don't know one person (save for the one who waited until she was 41 years old to have her first child) who waited until they have $100,000 in the bank, a paid for home, etc, before they had a child.
That's hyperbole, and you know it. All that's needed is a reasonable nest egg and enough equity in one's home on which one can borrow if necessary.
Instead, we have this, and these people are irresponsibly procreating then whining "woe is me!" when unexpected expenses hit:
Rising number of bankruptcies due to medical expenses.
Cost of health insurance was going up and up until it was unaffordable for many including a lot of small businesses.
Even people with health insurance would find the cost of medical care would overrun their caps if anything serious happened. That's if the fine print covered treatment for that condition at all.
The idea that doctors and hospitals post costs so a person could comparison shop is naive at best.
We had that free market/no government control system.
With the rise in numbers of uninsured as well as those buying health insurance that doesn't cover much of anything, we will see an increase in these stories.
Naturally, the hospital will do what it can to recover its costs. If this guy skips out on his bill, the rest of us will pick it up in higher costs.
And so it goes.
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All that's needed is a reasonable nest egg and enough equity in one's home on which one can borrow if necessary. 