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I'm sorry for your loss OP. We had premature twins who both stayed in the NICU for around three months. Our total hospital bills came out to just under five mi

I'm sorry for your loss OP. We had premature twins who both stayed in the NICU for around three months. Our total hospital bills came out to just under five million dollars. Fortunately we also had great insurance and received great care. We fought with the insurance/hospital/vendors for over a year and was on the phone with them every single week for hours to get the covered procedures included. An annoyance, but we were able to navigate it. Our twins are thriving today. Other families were not so lucky. We watched under or uninsured parents have to make decisions between the health of their sick children and their own financial livelihood. As educated privileged workers, the system worked for us. But it fails many. There has got to be a better way

kingsloi 5y ago
That's exactly who I am advocating for, not for myself, my wife, child, family were all loved and taken care of, which isn't the case for some children. My wife and I walked by ICU beds daily that had children just starring at the ceiling, during the peak of their development, they have nothing/no one (except the love of hospital staff), for whatever reason, either in the care of the state, of their parents are at work to afford their child's ICU stay. We learnt we couldn't judge.