People against healthcare reform must alreay be on govt care or havn't been to the doctor... [View All]

My wife and I are both 26 and in great health. We both work for large national companies that I thought provided decent health care coverage.

My wife passed out at work and was compalining about seeing black spots. I got the call from her boss when I was leaving work, so I went over and we decided to go to the emergency room because she said that she was seeing these black spots. The emergency room was fine. No wait to get a room, and the doctor and nurses didn't waste a lot of time doing what they were doing. Blood was taken and a CT scan was done because the doctor was concerned about the spots she was seeing. After everything came back ok, we paid the $50 copay and went on our way.

Then the bills started coming in. Call me naive, but I got out of the Navy a couple years ago after joing right after highschool, and I have never been to the doctor for more than a checkup... I wasn't expecting hospital bills to be this high. $90 for a pregency test, $80 for this test and that test, $500 for reading lab work, $4000 for the ct scan. Then there was the bill from the person that actually looked at the ct scan and the bill from the people that actually ran the blood work. I don't have all the bills infront of me, but when it was all said and done, we had to come out of pocket for $900.

I'm sure there are plenty of people out there that have gone though much worse than me. I have been thinking about what Sen. Franken says about medical bankruptcy in this country. I had just never really thought about it a lot, or gotten in any arguements when people talked about it. My wife and I are healthy, we never really looked at or read our policies. But then I found out that her company only covers 80%, and we were responsible for the rest. $900 is a lot of money for us, and money that we were really not ready to spend.

I have always been for healthcare reform, just never paid much attention. I am now convinced that anyone who is against change dosn't pay for their healthcare because they don't have to (Obama is already taking care of them :patriot: ) or they havn't been to the doctor lately.

My wife works as a bank teller, and her till was short by $70. She was trying to figure out why she was $70 short, and was late leaving work. Had her drawer been balanced, she would have alreay left, and could have been driving home when she passed out. Funny how things work out.