I hope your mother has recovered well.
Ten years ago I joined the PA Farm Bureau so I could get group rate Blue
Cross through them. I don't recall exactly, but the cost then was about
$350 per quarter, per person. Three or four years later it had gone to
$1000 per month for my wife and I. Several members of my wife's family
have died of colon cancer but this very expensive plan would not cover a
colonoscopy.
I'm sure there are 10s of millions of stories of this sort and much
worse in this country at this point. And then there are the millons that
have no hope of health care at all.
Rev. Stewart Marshall wrote:
Just this past May my mother fell in France and broke both her femurs.
My mother has both Medicare and Tricare for life. (My father was
retired military reserves)
Medicare will not cover you outside the US.
Tricare will cover her surgery and hospital stay but it had to be paid
for up front.
Total cost (All inclusive) for surgeries and hospital stay of one week
was $12,000 US. Same stay and surgeries in the US would have been
approximately $50,000.
US health care has found ways to line every ones pocket for a simple
procedure.
Have some blood drawn and you will get two to three bills. Doctors
office for drawing blood, lab for running tests, and pathologist for
reviewing lab results. Now that is criminal and outrageous.
There is a better way to do this and it is going to take some time,
but it is about time they start addressing it.
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