[Spridgets] I'm pissed - No LBC

[cmanuel at wi.rr.com]

durning my bout of unemployment last year, one of the kids required an emergency trip.  
Even with COBRA coverage, it was cheaper for me to pay out of pocket.  The side by side comparison was incredible.

Still sucked, but it was the lesser of the evils.

Chris 
---- Larry Daniels <ladaniels at sbcglobal.net> wrote: 
> Ron, my insurance company paid slightly less than $10,000 for my surgery to 
> reattach my Achilles to my heel including all follow-up, etc.  The bill, 
> however, was twice that.  The deal the ins. co. negotiates with the networks 
> is incredible.  Now, if you can't afford really good insurance like mine (my 
> portion of the bill was a $50 co-pay) you end up paying the total bill out 
> of pocket -- in this case nearly $20,000 versus my $50.  And you know that 
> if the providers are only getting half of the bill paid by the ins. co., 
> they need to jack the prices up for the rest to make up for it.  If you 
> can't afford the insurance, how in the hell are you going to pay the bill? 
> You can't; you will lose everything over a damn doctor bill.  We need 
> national health care so the less well-off aren't constantly teetering on the 
> edge of disaster over this.
> 
> Rant over.
> 
> 
> LAD