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On S-CHIP: Send Him The Same Bill | 44 comments (44 topical)

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My wife and I were uninsured for years (none / 0) (#18)
by sarcastic unnamed one on Wed Oct 03, 2007 at 03:06:54 PM EST
as was most of our social circle.

We got health care when we needed it and paid for it ourselves.

For the record, lack of health insurance does not equal lack do health care nor taxpayers paying for the uninsured's health care.

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I'm thinking catastrophic events, such (5.00 / 0) (#20)
by oculus on Wed Oct 03, 2007 at 03:24:15 PM EST
as paraplegia or brain injury (m/c accidents; m/v accidents, etc.)  Assume you didn't have kids.

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Right on (none / 0) (#21)
by sarcastic unnamed one on Wed Oct 03, 2007 at 03:37:08 PM EST
I have no objection to a catastrophic safety net but that's a different conversation than S-CHIP.

When uninsured I remember paying the ER $200+ because my wife had the flu so bad she thought she was dying. For that $200 the doc gave us an Rx for aspirin.

An uninsured buddy had a burst appendix, ER bill came to over $5K. They asked him how much he could afford to pay/month, he said $10. They accepted that.

Another uninsured friend started hemorrhaging from an ectopic pregnancy. That ER bill was over $6K, if I remember correctly, and she made (maybe still makes) small monthly payments for years.

When my wife and I decided to have kids we also decided to get higher-paying jobs through which we could better afford health insurance.

Amazing what you can do when you set your mind to it.

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Or, put another way, (none / 0) (#22)
by sarcastic unnamed one on Wed Oct 03, 2007 at 03:38:44 PM EST
amazing what you can do when you choose to do it.

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