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Re: U.S. Doctors Dumping Insurance and Charging Patients Less! by #174156 ..... Lyme (Lime) Disease Forum

Date:   9/24/2013 6:34:36 PM ( 11 y ago)
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URL:   https://www.curezone.org/forums/fm.asp?i=2108083

With chest pains and breathing difficulties I was taken to the emergency room of a local hospital in Tacoma Washington on January 2nd of this year.  I was subsequently diagnosed with a heart attack and given bypass surgery on two arteries.  Due to complications I spent six weeks in that hospital.

After getting out and on my way to recovery I got four bills for the stay - which did not include any doctor fees.  One of the bills was for $463,000.  Yes that's right.  Four hundred and sixty-three thousand dollars.  On the front page of the invoice it indicated that my Medicare and Aetna supplemental paid all of that but about $250.  Had I not had insurance I would have been in the poor house.

My monthly Medicare plus Aetna health insurance premiums are right at $390.  I'm in my eighties and if I live to be one hundred and eighty my insurance premiums would never pay that bill.


 

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