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Even with a good health insurance plan, there are still copay and deductable to consider when you have a major illness that requires hospitalization. This can a
by nilsimsa 12y ago
Even with a good health insurance plan, there are still copay and deductable to consider when you have a major illness that requires hospitalization. This can add up to $1K-$4K per year of treatment depending on how good a plan you have. Then you have all the time and money incurred by your family is getting you better. Time off from work, traveling to visit you, staying with you.
If you are lucky you have a good insurance plan and your employer provides disability insurance that covers your lost salary which recovering.
- ma2rten 12y agoThat is exactly the point... In no other developed country (or should I say in no developed country) do people die because they can not pay their medical bills. The system has to change.
- chrisBob 12y agoIts actually worse than that. Preventative care is not guaranteed, but emergency care, at a hospital emergency room is. This way caring for someone with a minor illness or injury often ends up being more expensive because they can only get help when it becomes life threatening. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/27/AR2007022702116.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02...