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Wow, spoken like someone who doesn't have a serious illness yet and doesn't know what it's like to be told at a young age that you have cancer and insurance companies refuse to cover you.
If health care was more affordable maybe it wouldn't be such a big deal. My radiation treatment cost more than $40,000! I make about $30,000 a year. A large portion of the US population makes around $32,000 a year. Not everyone can earn six figures and pay out of pocket for such luxuries like chemo and radiation. One standard infusion of chemo can cost $30,000, and most of the time depending on the stage of the cancer you need at least 6 of those! Six! Do the math, that is $180,000 to get chemo and stay alive! I was lucky, I had COBRA insurance through a previous employer when I was first diagnosed, after the COBRA ran out and I shopped for my own policy, apparently my illness and the subsequent high priced treatments and doc visits placed a red flag by my name. No carriers would cover me.
My current short term goal is to wait until I absolutely have to go (translation: until I have tumors I can feel or am in great pain) President Bush said all Americans have access to health care just go to the ER, yet the ER can fix injuries and brief ilnesses, you cannot go to the ER for long term follow-up cancer care or cancer treatment, that is a myth, they will refer you to an oncologist, who costs money and wants to be paid. You can ask to be seen pro bono, but most will say no to that, hey they have to maintain their lifestyle, can't have these poor sick folk asking for handouts for chemo and radiation. I am too young for Medicare and not poor enough for Medicaid. My long term option is getting rid of everything I own, move in with my parents (I am 38) and try to get Medicaid or disability (disability can take 6 months to a year to be approved, if it is approved by the way).
So many hurdles, and all I did was get diagnosed with cancer, this 101 pound, non-smoker, exercising, eating right, chick who never even did drugs. Of course I would very much like to be a drug addict now, maybe I could spend some time forgetting about my need to wait until I am really bad to go to the doctors (by then it will probably be too late anyway)
I guess I just get the right to sit home, watch TV and die.

— Jeannine-374164

Wow, spoken like someone who doesn't have a serious illness yet and doesn't know what it's like to be told at a young age that you have cancer and insurance companies refuse to cover you.
If health care was more affordable maybe it wouldn't be such a big deal. My radiation treatment cost more than $40,000! I make about $30,000 a year. A large portion of the US population makes around $32,000 a year. Not everyone can earn six figures and pay out of pocket for such luxuries like chemo and radiation. One standard infusion of chemo can cost $30,000, and most of the time depending on the stage of the cancer you need at least 6 of those! Six! Do the math, that is $180,000 to get chemo and stay alive! I was lucky, I had COBRA insurance through a previous employer when I was first diagnosed, after the COBRA ran out and I shopped for my own policy, apparently my illness and the subsequent high priced treatments and doc visits placed a red flag by my name. No carriers would cover me.
My current short term goal is to wait until I absolutely have to go (translation: until I have tumors I can feel or am in great pain) President Bush said all Americans have access to health care just go to the ER, yet the ER can fix injuries and brief ilnesses, you cannot go to the ER for long term follow-up cancer care or cancer treatment, that is a myth, they will refer you to an oncologist, who costs money and wants to be paid. You can ask to be seen pro bono, but most will say no to that, hey they have to maintain their lifestyle, can't have these poor sick folk asking for handouts for chemo and radiation. I am too young for Medicare and not poor enough for Medicaid. My long term option is getting rid of everything I own, move in with my parents (I am 38) and try to get Medicaid or disability (disability can take 6 months to a year to be approved, if it is approved by the way).
So many hurdles, and all I did was get diagnosed with cancer, this 101 pound, non-smoker, exercising, eating right, chick who never even did drugs. Of course I would very much like to be a drug addict now, maybe I could spend some time forgetting about my need to wait until I am really bad to go to the doctors (by then it will probably be too late anyway)
I guess I just get the right to sit home, watch TV and die.

— Jeannine-374164

Wow, spoken like someone who doesn't have a serious illness yet and doesn't know what it's like to be told at a young age that you have cancer and insurance companies refuse to cover you.
If health care was more affordable maybe it wouldn't be such a big deal. My radiation treatment cost more than $40,000! I make about $30,000 a year. A large portion of the US population makes around $32,000 a year. Not everyone can earn six figures and pay out of pocket for such luxuries like chemo and radiation. One standard infusion of chemo can cost $30,000, and most of the time depending on the stage of the cancer you need at least 6 of those! Six! Do the math, that is $180,000 to get chemo and stay alive! I was lucky, I had COBRA insurance through a previous employer when I was first diagnosed, after the COBRA ran out and I shopped for my own policy, apparently my illness and the subsequent high priced treatments and doc visits placed a red flag by my name. No carriers would cover me.
My current short term goal is to wait until I absolutely have to go (translation: until I have tumors I can feel or am in great pain) President Bush said all Americans have access to health care just go to the ER, yet the ER can fix injuries and brief ilnesses, you cannot go to the ER for long term follow-up cancer care or cancer treatment, that is a myth, they will refer you to an oncologist, who costs money and wants to be paid. You can ask to be seen pro bono, but most will say no to that, hey they have to maintain their lifestyle, can't have these poor sick folk asking for handouts for chemo and radiation. I am too young for Medicare and not poor enough for Medicaid. My long term option is getting rid of everything I own, move in with my parents (I am 38) and try to get Medicaid or disability (disability can take 6 months to a year to be approved, if it is approved by the way).
So many hurdles, and all I did was get diagnosed with cancer, this 101 pound, non-smoker, exercising, eating right, chick who never even did drugs. Of course I would very much like to be a drug addict now, maybe I could spend some time forgetting about my need to wait until I am really bad to go to the doctors (by then it will probably be too late anyway)
I guess I just get the right to sit home, watch TV and die.

— Jeannine-374164

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