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My ex mother in law was a lazy, morbidly obese dependent of the state who received well over a million USD in care during the last 10 years of her life. Even w
by 01100011 8y ago
My ex mother in law was a lazy, morbidly obese dependent of the state who received well over a million USD in care during the last 10 years of her life. Even when her moron of a husband cancelled their insurance policy she still managed to spend months in the critical ICU section of UC Irvine while they cut out a bread loaf-sized section of necrotic flesh and rebuilt her intestinal tract. They didn't, and couldn't, pay anything.
She received care, without insurance, for heart failure(including oxygen concentrator and tanks), a pulmonary embolism, and back pains(among other things which I can't fully recall and am actively trying to forget).
I'm not saying it happens to everyone, but it does happen.
- kwoff 8y agoWhat is wrong with you? You're a horrible person.
- balt_s 8y agoThat's a pretty unfair moral judgment to throw out; considering that every use of resources involves at least an implicit tradeoff, I'll go ahead and risk damnatio by wondering aloud how many people in poor countries could be saved by the use of a fraction of this resource expenditure.
- dang 8y agoPlease don't add a personal attack to a nasty comment.
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- arthur_pryor 8y agoi don't see anything here that contradicts the parent. which is to say, preventative and maintenance care are important, and i don't see any of that in what you described. parent's talking about emergency care. you're describing emergency care.
- ethbro 8y ago> you're describing emergency care Everything is emergency care, if you wait long enough.
- 01100011 8y agoShe did generally have good access to preventative care once she had a condition. Since she generally always had something wrong with her, she generally always had access. I see your point though. I'll also say that people like her are why preventative care isn't always what it's cracked up to be. There are plenty of people like her with conditions like diabetes(which she also developed due to her sedentary lifestyle and poor eating habits) who willfully disregard their doctors' attempts at moderating their behaviors.
- ajross 8y ago> good access to preventative care once she had a condition That is literally the opposite of what "preventative care" means.