Oh. I have a GOOOOOOD fb interaction going here...

[margotmacomber]

Well I'll definitely be following this post on commercial breaks!  I can't engage on facebook because I am from typical Ohio and it would take me all day every day.  Ain't nobody got time for that.  

[MixedBerryJam]

Every now and then I used to post random invoices from my husband's cancer treatment (he was in treatment during the fights in 2009). He had chemo once every two weeks, standard of care, nothing heroic or unusual, to the tune of $45,000 a visit. Down there at the bottom was our copay: $15. Dimbass poster up there can take his $5 a month payment plan and shove it right up his ass, and then pay cash up front for the MRI to see what his preexisting condition is.

[margotmacomber]

Oct 3, 2013 20:28:00 GMT -5 killercupcake said:

Me: "Because healthcare reform started before yesterday and 1/1/2014. Parts of the ACA have been in effect for nearly 3 years."

WHY are the ones who know the least always the ones who open their big mouths?

I applaud you and your ability to engage in rational discussion.  My blood pressure just went up because my grandma might still be alive if she had been around for ACA.

[VeryViolet]

What the fuck is wrong with people that they cannot see that their realty is not every other persons reality. I sometimes have a serious lack of empathy and even my dumbass can see that everyone's situation is different and that yes there are people in this county going without necessary health care because they were unfortunate enough to be poor, or unemployed or shit just plain shortsighted. No hospitals don't provide care to everyone because it is the "right thing to do". Emergency care sure maybe but not ongoing care. None of that means that people deserve to suffer or die. Ughhhh I just want to smack the shit out of fb idiots.

[MixedBerryJam]

Oct 3, 2013 20:34:06 GMT -5 killercupcake said:

Oct 3, 2013 20:30:55 GMT -5 MixedBerryJam said:

Every now and then I used to post random invoices from my husband's cancer treatment (he was in treatment during the fights in 2009). He had chemo once every two weeks, standard of care, nothing heroic or unusual, to the tune of $45,000 a visit. Down there at the bottom was our copay: $15. Dimbass poster up there can take his $5 a month payment plan and shove it right up his ass, and then pay cash up front for the MRI to see what his preexisting condition is.

She has Tricare. No worries for her! lalala!

Ugh. 

I'm sorry MBJ.

This pisses me off all the more. "I got mine and screw the rest of you." One of the horrifying lessons of dealing with cancer -- we were in a support group of maybe 8 to 10 couples, and of that group, we were the only couple that wasn't financially devastated, DEVASTATED, by cancer. Too sick to work? You're fired. No paycheck? Eh, your kids don't need to eat. Every other couple in that group lost their job, or their insurance, or their home, because of the financial catasrophe. We "lucked out'" if you can call it that, because we had very secure jobs with very stable organizations.

And thank you.

[margotmacomber]

Oct 3, 2013 20:34:06 GMT -5 killercupcake said:

Oct 3, 2013 20:30:55 GMT -5 MixedBerryJam said:

Every now and then I used to post random invoices from my husband's cancer treatment (he was in treatment during the fights in 2009). He had chemo once every two weeks, standard of care, nothing heroic or unusual, to the tune of $45,000 a visit. Down there at the bottom was our copay: $15. Dimbass poster up there can take his $5 a month payment plan and shove it right up his ass, and then pay cash up front for the MRI to see what his preexisting condition is.

She has Tricare. No worries for her! lalala!

Ugh. 

I'm sorry MBJ.

We had a baby on nothing but copays.  So yeah, Tricare is totally representative of the normal experience.  

[margotmacomber]

Oct 3, 2013 22:35:56 GMT -5 killercupcake said:

Oct 3, 2013 21:52:12 GMT -5 lagom said:

She of of all people should understand how precious her standard of care is. 

I'm sure she hasn't thought about any of the what ifs either, ie. H gets med-boarded

Probably not. She doesn't seem to have the best decision making skills. 

She married her husband, by proxy, while he was deployed because he got her pregnant on their second date right before he went to Iraq. 

She also has not responded. LOL I win!

[WOT?*]

My most expensive kid on Tricare cost $25 because I had him in a private hospital. My cheapest was FREE. My grandson's parents lost their house because she developed breast cancer. They're now filing bankruptcy - they had insurance and were still left with a hefty six-figure bill.

[shostakovich]

I am rolling my eyes so hard at the $5 a month thing. If we did that for all of H's cancer treatment bills (that, thankfully, our insurance covered in full), we'd need to have Biblical life spans to pay them off before we died. Like, Old Testament-style life spans. And we still wouldn't pay them off.

[WOT?*]

Oct 3, 2013 22:51:28 GMT -5 killercupcake said:

Oct 3, 2013 22:50:13 GMT -5 WOT?* said:

My most expensive kid on Tricare cost $25 because I had him in a private hospital. My cheapest was FREE. My grandson's parents lost their house because she developed breast cancer. They're now filing bankruptcy - they had insurance and were still left with a hefty six-figure bill.

Why didn't they just pay 5 dollars a month toward the bill? Gah. Lazy. 

Their lawyer was actually a little miffed and surprised that they paid on the house and hospital bills as long as they did.  They moved out, tried to short sell (the bank on their second refused the short sale and yet they still tried to pay on their mortgage...and their hospital bills as long as they could put food on the table.)  I was piiiiiiisssssssssssed at the bank for refusing the short-sale.  They are the epitome of what insurance and HAMP refis were supposed to be all about.