Re: Letter from Helen for Dr.Moore

From: Jaynie Jarvis (hipjaynie@webtv.net)
Wed Jan 15 16:02:23 2003


At Wed, 15 Jan 2003, K. Murray wrote: >
>You know I wanted to reply to the Insurance thing too. I know it is very
>difficult without insurance but it isn't easy with it either. I also ha e
>insurance and went to Germany and paid for my surgery without the insura ces
>help.
>I had to quit my job and have had three adhesion surgeries in a little o er
>4 years. I am still paying Drs and pain management. Insurances get out f
>paying as much as possible.
>Luckily, I had a charge account at the drug store when I was on pain
>management or I wouldn't have even been able to pay the co-pays.
>So I do know that insurance is better than nothing but it is not what you
>think it is.
>I am 6-weeks post-op from Germany and not ready to return to work but I ave
>to because we chose to pay for my health over other bills.
>Kelly
>
>-------Original Message-------
>
>From: adhesions@adhesions.org
>Date: Wednesday, January 15, 2003 01:10:43 PM
>To: Multiple recipients of list ADHESIONS
>Subject: Re: Letter from Helen for Dr.Moore
>
>At Wed, 15 Jan 2003, linda garcia wrote:
>>
>>Hello again,
>>
>>I see in your letter to Helen that you state there is dangerous info on
>this board. Where do you get off? It is crazy, do you know how many of u on
>this board have no insurance? And can't afford to go to the doctor or ER
>everytime something unexpected comes up? Most of us have gone years
>undiagnosed so we wasted all that money for nothing, now that we know wh t
>is wrong and we see so many others out there with the same problems, we ork
>together like a family, Have you ever heard of that? It is crazy, doctors
>charge so much for their info, when we can get the info ourselves on the
>internet. I am willing to try some of the options that my "sisters" post
>because I am one of those without insurance. We are a family of 5 , 4 ho ses
> 1 dog and a fish living on one income. Make too much for medicaid. go
>figure. What would you do if you were in the same boat. How many times h s a
>friend of yours suggested a restaurant or vacation spot and you had to t y
>it? same with !
>this adhesion family, it just has to deal with medical stuff.
>>
>>It would be nice to keep you around here for insight and advice, but no if
>you are going to put us down. We are fighting a big war here and have
>suffered needlessly.
>>
>>Take this into consideration before you say that we are crazy once agai .
>>
>>Linda Gacia
>
>--
>
>--
>Dear Linda, Everyone seems to think I have money, don't know where they ot
>that impression. But to set a clear record. I worked a full time job and ran
>the Inn for the first fifteen years and so did my husband while we raised
>his
>son who had brain cancer (His bills were astronomical. I paid Dr. Kruchi ski
>s bill with my credit card and
>my bills for the appendectomy are above 40,000 and still coming in. Dr.
>Kruschinski's
>bill was one fifth of my appendectomy bill. I have insurance but with
>deductibles,
>co-pays, what they won't pay, etc. we'll be paying them for a long time.
>That's one reason
>I'm so anxious to work on my business. I'm not complaining, just trying o
>clarify. Well,
>I might be complaining a little bit, but I really have no reason to. I w uld
>have liked to
>have children other than my step-son but my old Pelvic Inflamatory Disea e
>prevented that. Back in 1967 the ER told me I was being hysterical, it d dn
>t hurt, and
>just go home and don't come back. Boy, did that hurt. They found the dri d
>pus
>from the infection years later, after I was too old to have children. Lo e,
>Sally
>

WOW. Insurance is for the healthy ? We've moved and are on cobrat up to 717 a month. Blue Shield just turned me down !? All these years of having insurance and at age 46 I already don't qualify as a healthy enogh person to have health insurance ! See how stup-id that sounds ? What about us sick people? JAYNIE >


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