I was hospitalized for 2 months last year with a serious blood infection that caused an abscess in my spine, and I was almost paralyzed. I had just lost my (basically) minimum wage job a month prior and my family kept emphasizing how lucky I was to have medicaid "or else my treatment would cost a million dollars!"
I consider myself lucky but I still lie awake at night wondering what would've happened if I had private insurance. That bill would've probably killed me faster than the infection.
HighestHorse on August 14th, 2020 at 06:32 UTC »
Land of the free, home of the perpetual and inevitable medical debt.
heppulikeppuli on August 14th, 2020 at 06:53 UTC »
There is an American documentary about this kind of case. In that documentary a family man pays hes hospital bills with meth.
courierthicc on August 14th, 2020 at 08:32 UTC »
I was hospitalized for 2 months last year with a serious blood infection that caused an abscess in my spine, and I was almost paralyzed. I had just lost my (basically) minimum wage job a month prior and my family kept emphasizing how lucky I was to have medicaid "or else my treatment would cost a million dollars!"
I consider myself lucky but I still lie awake at night wondering what would've happened if I had private insurance. That bill would've probably killed me faster than the infection.