"I suppose that if everyone had to pay for healthcare out of pocket, we'd be in a very different situation. Very few people would ever pay for MRIs or CAT scans or things like that. Instead, they'd just wait until their cancers were big enough to make themselves obvious in some other way."
Yup, that's me. I am doing none of the testing, taking a "wait and see" approach. Why pay someone to shove something up my ass when I can't pay for the cure?
"I, for one, am quite grateful that I had continued to pay for my own health coverage, through the COBRA program, after leaving my last employer. That made it possible for me to enjoy a wonderful buffet of chemo, radiation, surgery, and hospitalization when I had cancer a year and a half ago."
COBRA was great while it lasted, but then it ran out and my health insurance ran up 300% in the space of two years, after a while you wonder if spending $7,200 per year to insure yourself is worthwhile ... that is a lot of money ... and the cost to insure a female is much higher ... my game plan is if I get hit with the Big C, I will go to a nation that is hospitable to massive doses of morphine ... U.S. hospices do a great job of that, I know from visiting clients, they are great ... but I don't want to wait that long for my massive dose of morphine, usually with hospices you have to be within a few weeks of death to get admitted. |
