Wallet biopsy

ausrebel53 said:

My 2 cents worth

I am sorry so many people got upset here, that was not my intention, having read so many comments by people here who have had adverse financial problems I was only trying to contribute to the conversation. I don't know about anyone else here but when I was first told I had cancer my first thought was for my family and how would it affect them financially, would we have to lose our house etc, so many such thoughts went through my mind and I guess the first consideration was financial.

Air force vet so sorry you got upset here, I value and respect what you have done and what you say and wish you would not leave here.

Finance and insurance are touchy subjects but they cannot be ignored and sadly at times people will cross swords regarding them. Even though we will no doubt have many varying political opinions here I can only hope we can find common ground to communicate.

regards Michael

Last time I checked, cancer wasn't even registered to vote! Last time I checked, cancer didn't care what sex you are, where you live or country you come from. Cancer doesn't care how old you are, your education, income or whether or not you have insurance or not. 

I'm sorry, regardless of your political or religious views, cancer doesn't discriminate. To get upset over that, in my opinion, in light of the hand we've been dealt is just a bit much.

No amount of complaining or the degree of your passion on the subject will change a thing nor will it eradicate the beast within us all.

Peace....

"T"

blackswampboy said:

you have every right to vent about the "wallet biopsy"

thought that was pretty clever, actually.

I was referring to the 'sadly with obamacare' comment. that was a gratuitous political comment--and rather ironic, since the 'wallet biospy' is hardly a good endorsement of our current health care system.

I'm also pretty certain that most of the people criticizing health care in other countries have never actually had care under those systems... you are obviously an exception. I'm not familiar with Australia's system myself either. it could be crap for all I know. but just because one country may have a crap system doesn't mean that we are going there too. suggestions that we're gonna end up just like europe (or australia) are particularly silly.

freedom of speech is alive and well. I'm simply asking if we really want to go political. my opinion, it's a pity to divide us into red and blue state cancer survivors. but hey, I'm up for it if ya'll are. bring it on.

While it is true that we won't know the full impact of the new healthcare laws until at least 2014, one part of them is about to be a godsend to me.  I had a $1 million lifetime limit on my insurance until the new laws took all such limits away.  Well, guess what?  Yesterday I did my annual tally of what my insurance company paid out in 2012 and added that to what they have paid from the start of my cancer gig.  I am within about $20K of $1 million, and still dealing with some side effects that will call for more treatments and expenses in 2013.  I didn't have many medical expenses before my cancer, but surely I would have hit "Tilt" sometime in 2013.

If not for the elimination of those limits, I would be like many other people who are worried about how they are going to pay for this very expensive care--and I have five years until I qualify for Medicare.  I understand that the doctors, hospitals, and insurance companies are in cahoots to inflate these costs astronomically--but given that sad bit of truth, this boy is very grateful that he has good insurance, and no limits on it now.

Mike