Yeah, it was. Another part of the story was, well, I cut my hand on a nail while exiting my vehicle as I slipped on ice. MY employer at the time, a small startup did not pay out health insurance premiums either, but that was not known to us. We thought we were covered but we were not, we did not find out until later. Still since it involved the vehicle, my car insurance paid the medical costs, all of them. Anything involving your car and medical, the car insurance covers it, from injuring yourself while getting out and what not. I was lucky. The social worker at the hospital kept badgering me to go as a charity case but I kept telling her my car insurance covered it plus I had healthcare (or so I thought) coverage. Well I told her to give me her number and if I needed her, I’d call her. Well the car insurance came though and she called me and I told her and thanked her anyways. I remember it well, I went in the day after the space shuttle Columbia burned up. All I did in hospital was watch the shuttle investigation, Civil War documentaries and talk radio. BTW, my aunt, 6 months prior was in hospital too, she suffered a staph infection in her foot from a cortisone shot and she almost lost her foot.
I didn't know car insurance paid for that. Good to know.
The last time I was hospitalized was more than 50 years ago (before socialized medicine, so it didn't cost much!), for a minor thing that didn't need hospitalization, but my doctor put me in anyway. But about 10 years ago, I did catch a rotovirus from my mother, who caught it in an outpatient procedure at a hospital. Nasty, but nothing to what you and your aunt went through.
Amazing. Happy to hear that you got thru without losing your hand —= or more.
Looks like we should all be buying more auto insurance to pay our med bills when obummercare fails. “I caught pneumonia in my car.”