3800 can you afford......

[CoolGTX]

my hospital bill for 7 days was 27,800
that was (only) the hospital bill, no doctors, thats seperate.

thank goodness for health insurance.


can you afford to get sick?

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[imported_Diavolo]

short answer, no

 

[GTPHales-Wife]

Thank god for insurance. My C-Section alone was almost 12,000. Didn't have to pay a penny except for a $5 copay for all the prenatal visits.

 

[imported_snoop]

plain and simple.....no way

it is a little tooooo rediculous now-a-days

 

[imported_Theautoguy]

It'll cost me less to die than to get sick...The wife would love it that way too.

 

[MrT]

3 hours in the ER with a sick kid = $1,900.......out of pocket, $25

 

[Fish]

My insurance is pretty good. Gabbys bills when she was born were almost $20K due to the NICU. We paid nothing. ER visits are between $75 and $200.

 

[smknL67]

My fiancee is a nurse and to pay her salary I guess the hospital does have to charge a good amount of change to pay her. I never thought a girl could make so much

 

[Edmond]

Fortunately, I have health insurance. In my previous profession, I did not and could not afford to get sick or even see the doctor for anything because of the high cost.

 

[dsk727]

Thankfully yes we can! Well Jocelyn and I, we have 100% Adam has his own and isn't quite as good, we are switching his over to mine though next open enrollment.

Jocelyn's total birth bills with 6 days in the NICU was just over $42000, not one penny paid. Her Physical and Occupational Therapy is $1000 per month since she was 3 weeks old, also not one penny paid. Pretty much the only reason I like my job LOL :lol:

Glad to see you are covered J/O!!!

 

[nitrous]

I'm still under my parents' since I'm a full-time student.

 

[Bob Kazamakis]

I cannot. i dont have insurance unfortunately. ive been looking to get some but its confusing and damn expensive....i dont even know what it means and whats good or not.

 

[BumpinGTP]

No insurance here for the past two years. In those two years I have managed to be hospitalized 4 times for a grand total of around 95k. Liz has been in and out of the hospital for the past 3 months and we are just starting to get all her bills for it, expecting around 40k for that stuff. My insurance with Verizon starts October 1, and of course as soon as I have it I will probably never be in the hospital again.

 

[framos242]

It's unfortunate the cost of insurance being deducted from everyone's pay. To think, the amount of lawsuits being filed against doctors is causing a lot of doctors to leave medicine. Their insurance premiums alone is out of control.

 

[Royalgtp]

You guys have HMO or PPO??


Once my deductible is gone for my PPO, they take care of almost all of it.

 

[CoolGTX]

blue cross/blue shield HMO

 

[dsk727]

Aetna EPO, like an HMO no deductables and millions in yearly and lifetime limits. 100% coverage on everything except certain dental procedures.

 

[GTPHales-Wife]

AETNA HMO......

Unfortunately we will be switching to a PPO next year and we will have $1000 deductible, and 80/20 coverage. Once it the deductible is met for the year then there is 100% coverage after that.

 

[imported_GraFFix]

You should see the bills we get from when my mom was in the hospital...About a year and a half before she passed away is when the bills started racking up and in that time.

She had 5 trips to the ER via ambulance. Each trip consisted of at least 4-5 days in Intensive care followed by 1-2 weeks stay in the hospital. For each time she went in.

After that it was the numerous cat scans and MRI's and every test you could imagine, then followed by Chemo, brain surgery, home nursing...etc etc.

I think if we added everything up and had to pay for it all out of pocket we'd be at around 750k

And after all was said and done she probably would of been happier if she wouldnt of done anything and just let her sickness take its course. I still believe the doctors made her worse then better. all to the sum of 3/4 of a million. What a deal <_<