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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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