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Chemo therapy is as much as 36,000 per treatment. A typical cancer patient will start with 12 sessions. Not to mention multiple surgeries and multiple prescriptions. Pick any condition which requires extended time in a hospital, the costs will easily bankrupt the average family.
A simple car accident and the cost of putting you back together along with the time in intensive care will also bankrupt the average family.
Unfortunately some people who think it is good to eliminate the ACA, will someday find themselves in the position of potentially saving a family members life and being bankrupted for it, or just letting them die.
That is the system we had before, any major health issue and you would likely become bankrupt long before you could pay all the medical bills.
How much would you pay for 3 extra years of life? A single surgery can be $100,000. You might several.
I don't wish what my family went thru on anyone. But unfortunately that is the world we live in.
Not to worry, the people in these forums who want the ACA eradicated are all filthy rich, didn't you know that? They've been saving for their retirement since they were 3, never made a mistake, only had a child after they had 500k in the bank and they rarely get sick because they lead perfect lives, but if they do get sick, paying out tens of thousands for medical treatment is just chump change; in fact it's the equivalent of a rounding error on their financial statement. I have never visited a forum with so many ultra wealthy right wingers who live perfect lives and have no need for health insurance of any kind.
Sorry, but Obama care is nothing more then the re-distribution of wealth from the middle class and the collapse of the healthcare system . Thats exactly what it was designed to do.
Why, Don't the writers of ObamaCare worry they'll get sick, too?
Not to worry, the people in these forums who want the ACA eradicated are all filthy rich, didn't you know that? They've been saving for their retirement since they were 3, never made a mistake, only had a child after they had 500k in the bank and they rarely get sick because they lead perfect lives, but if they do get sick, paying out tens of thousands for medical treatment is just chump change; in fact it's the equivalent of a rounding error on their financial statement. I have never visited a forum with so many ultra wealthy right wingers who live perfect lives and have no need for health insurance of any kind.
Actually for some cancers, surviving 5 years can easily run a million or two. I figured the cost for 8 years was over 3 million. Without ACA my family and extended family and her family and extended family would have spent everything we had to give her those extra days of life.
When it is your own decision, it is amazing what people will do just for the hope of a few more days of life. Life is precious.
Not to worry, the people in these forums who want the ACA eradicated are all filthy rich, didn't you know that? They've been saving for their retirement since they were 3, never made a mistake, only had a child after they had 500k in the bank and they rarely get sick because they lead perfect lives, but if they do get sick, paying out tens of thousands for medical treatment is just chump change; in fact it's the equivalent of a rounding error on their financial statement. I have never visited a forum with so many ultra wealthy right wingers who live perfect lives and have no need for health insurance of any kind.
I'm sorry to say that you speak of a lot of truth there.
I'll be working till the day I die because scumbag democrats care more about trannies and illegal immigrants than the working man (who made this nation great once). So I don't sympathize with your "plight" in the least.
Join a union, which republicans despise, because they look out for the middle class....great pay and benefits. Republicans look after the rich.
There goes my planned early retirement. Guess I'll be forced to work until 65 when medicare kicks in because employer sponsored insurance will be necessary since individual health insurance will be able to refuse to cover people with pre-existing conditions.
Even those without a pre-existing condition will be subject to losing their insurance as soon as they get a future health issue or big claim. Bam - the insurance company can refuse to pay your claims and kick you off the policy if the claim is big enough. They'll pay for your broken arm but if you get something serious like cancer, expect to be canned by your insurance company pronto.
Some people were forced to pay $1000+ each month because of Obamacare, other people were priced out and lost their insurance. So why is it you think they would care?
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