Well, a couple months ago, there I was, balancing the office books. Next thing I know, I wake up in some hospital ICU a day or two later with a neurological condition called cerebral venous sinus thrombosis. But it took a while (and three MRIs) to figure that out.
Anyway, don’t try this at home folks. Not unless you want to stare at hospital ceilings for 10 days straight. Fortunately I avoided having to have brain surgery, although I did met a couple of neurosurgeons in the ER, still in their surgical scrubs, one of whom vowed “We will figure out what’s going on with you.” Which made me think of this guy:
x YouTube VideoI was fortunate however and managed to get back to work mostly full time about a month later. I was also fortunate in that I had enough money to pay the insurance deductible, which was $6500 against bills of about $100,000.
(And I’m still trying to get the insurance company to pay for the first hospital I was taken to, because they are claiming they don’t have to pay the full amount of the bill because it was “out of network”.) Never mind I guess that it was an emergency.
But there are many people still who have no insurance, or who cannot sustain a hit of a $6500 deductible, even if they had insurance. That’s about 800 hours of minimum wage work.
Ultimately, what is to be their fate under this bizarre health care “system” (more like a lottery) that we have?
I wonder if some of the various Republican twits that yammer about “freedom” while living off the public fisc would care to swap places with them?