One of the many reasons we need Single Payer

I had a gallbladder attack last Saturday. My symptoms started on Thursday but I hoped they would just go away since I have had my fill of hospitals and doctors. I googled my symptoms and decided I was not having a heart attack even though I had terrible chest pains and it seemed it was my gallbladder acting up. The pain kept on increasing during the day on Saturday to point it was so severe that I called the nurses' hotline that the insurance company offers. They told me to go to the ER and made sure I agreed to do so.

I was given tests to rule out any heart problems and the blood tests and sonogram confirmed a gallbladder attack. I was admitted and had the surgery Sunday morning. Now the insurance company will paid for the surgery but not the hospital stay. They state that the gallbladder could of been done as an out patient service. Never mind the fact that I have a shunt which the tubing runs from my head to my stomach and an incisional hernia from the shunt surgery which no one was sure how to proceed with removing my gallbladder. Also when they pump air in my abdomen to remove the gallbladder it could travel up the shunt tubing into my brain and cause problems.

This is on top of being charged earlier this year eight hundred dollars (which the insurance company won't pay) by my Neurosurgeon for adjusting my shunt. This procedure took thirty seconds and is done by putting a magnet to my head. The whole office visit was five minutes. Remember we have insurance.

We need single payer and the only candidate that may push for that is Bernie Sanders...