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After nearly dying from COVID-19, California man faces piles of medical bills
KSBW ^ | Mar 11, 2021 | Kay Recede

Posted on 03/14/2021 5:45:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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1 posted on 03/14/2021 5:45:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Its ok there will be a bunch of people coming by to suggest this is respiratory failure with covid not because of covid.


2 posted on 03/14/2021 5:48:23 PM PDT by gas_dr (Trial lawyers AND POLITICIANS are Endangering Every Patient in America: INCLUDING THEIR LIBERTIES)
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Sounds like they’re prepping us for another try at Obamacare.


3 posted on 03/14/2021 5:50:11 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy ("I see you did something -- why you so racist?")
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Never letting bad things go to waste and always arguing for your programs on the backs of hard cases are joined at the hips.


4 posted on 03/14/2021 5:53:38 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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“Leo is a production supervisor at a propane company with an office in Stockton.”


5 posted on 03/14/2021 5:55:38 PM PDT by Governor Dinwiddie
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“Forget it, Jake. It’s Stockton.”


6 posted on 03/14/2021 5:56:22 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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Karen Pollitz advises people to reach out to their HR, Health Insurance company as well as the ambulance company. It is the darnedest thing, you have people typing b/c to avoid using the word “because” and at the same time you have people typing out “as well as” to avoid using the word “and”.


7 posted on 03/14/2021 5:56:56 PM PDT by webheart (COVID was not worth the economic misery that it took to keep me from getting it for 7 months..)
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Given the state of the Medical profession, (exacerbated by the legal profession and the political profession), Getting sick with anything serious is likely to bankrupt anyone who isn’t already on welfare or with a health insurance plan that costs thousands of dollars a month.

Covid has nothing to do with it.


8 posted on 03/14/2021 5:57:31 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
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What do you mean another try? We have full bore ACA now, and no one is fighting against it.


9 posted on 03/14/2021 6:00:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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Given the state of the Medical profession, (exacerbated by the legal profession and the political profession), Getting sick with anything serious is likely to bankrupt anyone who isn’t already on welfare or with a health insurance plan that costs thousands of dollars a month.

Covid has nothing to do with it.
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Yes, but they are having a hard time convincing people to accept experimental gene therapy masquerading as a ‘vaccine’ so they have to try to frighten with financial hardship. Having read through parts of the database collecting death and side-effect data for the experimental Covid therapies, I’d say this guy needs to avoid the vaccine for financial reasons too.


10 posted on 03/14/2021 6:01:50 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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Leo should sue the hell out of the medical providers for poor treatment/malpractice. All the providers had to do is give Leo HCQ/Zinc Sulfate and Azithromycin beginning within 48 hours of initial symptoms and he would have been cured of the Covid Virus within 5 days at home That has been done to thousands of patients around the world with 99.6% success. Go get em Leo.


11 posted on 03/14/2021 6:06:09 PM PDT by chopperk ( )
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$7,000 isn’t so much. Most hospitals will accept payments of a couple hundred dollars a month.


12 posted on 03/14/2021 6:06:30 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (DemocRats would burn the country to the ground to be absolute rulers over the ashes.)
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Never letting bad things go to waste and always arguing for your programs on the backs of hard cases are joined at the hips.
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Lucky the guy had some form of insurance.

Let’s do the math. At some point in the last year, 80 million were unemployed. That meant loss of insurance or incredibly expensive COBRA insurance (mine was $5600 a month from BCBS. I declined).

Most new positions were at much lower pay rates and usually much worse insurance (I was offered personal insurance for $1000 a month for the part-time teaching gig I had, that’s 1/3 of my monthly gross, totally unaffordable, lucky the ObamaCare tax penalties are no longer in place - that’s pretty standard for most software engineering contractor positions - $200 to $250 a week for medical insurance (KForce, Collabra, Mondo, etc) - as I’m mid-50s, with pre-existing conditions.

I foresee an avalanche of medical and rent-induced bankruptcies in September when the last stimulus bill and protections expire.


13 posted on 03/14/2021 6:07:43 PM PDT by Starcitizen (To the filthy Indian trash snowflakes that cried my tagline, eff you and your filthy country. )
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$5600 a month? I thought mine was bad.


14 posted on 03/14/2021 6:10:53 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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The coming inflation will do that.

As for the rest there is actually no delegated power for the federal to spend money for anyone’s individual welfare no matter how dire their circumstances.


15 posted on 03/14/2021 6:11:31 PM PDT by Rurudyne (Standup Philosopher)
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Yup.


16 posted on 03/14/2021 6:14:04 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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$5600 a month? I thought mine was bad.
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BCBS plan with everything (it was from MLB before the big covid furlough of March/ April 2020, same plan as the ball players)


17 posted on 03/14/2021 6:49:10 PM PDT by Starcitizen (To the filthy Indian trash snowflakes that cried my tagline, eff you and your filthy country. )
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Philanthropy departments exist for a reason. There are also ways to negotiate with your provider so that costs are covered, even if it requires letters from the doctors who administered treatment.

Been there. They can also apply for Medicaid temporarily, and they’ll cover 3 months of past medical bills.

$7k isn’t really all that huge considering. I was expecting to hear of bills upwards of $50k.


18 posted on 03/14/2021 7:05:15 PM PDT by Tacrolimus1mg (Do no harm, but take no sh!t.)
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Sorry. My care meter is at 0. I mean 0.00


19 posted on 03/14/2021 7:51:31 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (Fraud !!! Now we’re off the TRUMP TRAIN and on the Swamp express to communist hell !! TRUTH! )
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Just tell them you recently crossed the border from Mexico, and want to vote for Joe. All charges dropped?


20 posted on 03/14/2021 9:41:47 PM PDT by catbertz
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