Re: Dealing with back problems

On Mar 3, 3:34 pm, "tim" <dognb...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I have a hard time reading about children not seeing doctors because of a
lack of money. Two years ago my daughters kidneys failed. She needed a
kidney transplant. She endured ten months of dialasys @ $36'000.00 a month.
Her kidney specialist's bill came to around $20'000.00 after insurance plus
the hospital bills. When transplant time came the surgery for my daughter
was $75'000.00 and for my son the donor $50'000.00 . Her medications
afterwards cost about $2,000.00 a month.

Now I do have insurance that paid almost 80%. Don't tell me I am lucky I
bust my ass for it, and do thhe math 20% leaves a ton of bills.

Now to get to the point her money grubbing specialist forgave what we
owed him costing me nothing. The hospital reduced their bill into an easy
number to pay off in a year actually just a few dollars a month. The
transplant team (said to be the finest in the world) said they would accept
what insurance and medicare gave them as full payment. The drug stores and
drug companies have told my daughter she will always get her meds regardless
of if she has money or not.

It is through experience I am telling you, we here in the U.S. have the
finest medical system in the world. If your kid needs a doc take the child
to any of mine or to the local clinic and they wont be turned away just
explain to them your position, I have seen children and adults recieve
glasses, dental work, drugs and many other things at no charge because they
were truly in need. By the way these were fine medical people not just hacks
or people that did the bare minimum.

Tim T
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You win the Missing the Point Award.

You, a hard-working, well-meaning dad, had to ask for CHARITY to pay
your daughter's medical bills. Just look at what you wrote. This bill
was forgiven, that fee was reduced, they'd take what they were given,
etc.

Why should ANY of this have been necessary? The truly pathos-inspiring
part is where you sound all GRATEFUL and PROUD to have been reduced to
BEGGING to get doctors to treat your child.

Your post is proof positive that we need national health NOW.

The very fact that they could forgive so much of your fees when, in
front of Congress, they cry poverty and say they operate on razor-thin
profit margins, proves the national health argument, NOT the Rush
Limbaugh Profit Is King counter-argument.

I have a hard time with people who use emotional string-pulling to
hurt America.

.

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