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[feotakahari]

At the doctor’s office the other day. The man at the front desk said there was an issue with my insurance, and they needed my signature to confirm that I would pay if the insurance didn’t. Nothing to worry about; it was just that I’d changed insurance recently, so they didn’t have everything ironed out yet.

I asked him the likelihood that I would be told to pay twenty thousand dollars I didn’t have. He said it was fifty seven thousand dollars. He also said the odds were about zero percent that I’d actually have to pay.

Of course I fucking signed. If I don’t get my medicine, I bleed my guts out and die. And of course the insurance refused to pay, and the hospital wants its fifty seven thousand dollars.

Fuck this. Fuck everything. 

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[wingedcatgirl]

That is messed up on several levels.

Does the hospital have any kind of financial assistance program?

[feotakahari]

Yeah, but I'm hoping it doesn't come to that. I'm going to try to argue that since the insurance didn't send me the rejection letter until after I'd had the procedure, they should cover it just this once. It's worked for me before.

[lb_lee]

I really hope that works, that fucking blows and I'd be furious and terrified too. :\ And hope one day our country reaches a point where, "I need to rob banks to pay for my cancer treatments" is not a viable plot device.