42 percent of new cancer patients lose their life savings
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#2I think if I get cancer I'm just going to have to die. I can't leave my wife destitute.
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#3I have seen that with an acquaintance. She had insurance but there was a never ending string of things that cost $20k here, $10k there until she was wiped out and had to file for bankruptcy.
In the US even if you have insurance it's still a gamble whether you'll get wiped out or not.
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#4Sometimes I’m just amazed that people haven’t risen up in bloody revolt yet. Recently my mother had a flare-up up radiation-induced pneumonitis and the PPO insurance she pays $14,000 annually wouldn’t approve a single unit of Advair. It took a week of talking to doctors and insurance drones to figure out that they were pushing her to an alternative that cost them $100 less.
If I woke up tomorrow and people were burning Wall Street to the ground I’d be less than shocked.
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#5Sometimes I’m just amazed that people haven’t risen up in bloody revolt yet. Recently my mother had a flare-up up radiation-induced pneumonitis and the PPO insurance she pays $14,000 annually wouldn’t approve a single unit of Advair. It took a week of talking to doctors and insurance drones to figure out that they were pushing her to an alternative that cost them $100 less. If I woke up tomorrow and people were burni…
Again and again history reveals a surprising fact: you can push people really far before they finally reach their breaking point. And when that breaking point is finally reached, the trigger will not be what you expected.
Re: 42 percent of new cancer patients lose their life savings
#6I think if I get cancer I'm just going to have to die. I can't leave my wife destitute.
Can't she get a job?
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#8Sometimes I’m just amazed that people haven’t risen up in bloody revolt yet. Recently my mother had a flare-up up radiation-induced pneumonitis and the PPO insurance she pays $14,000 annually wouldn’t approve a single unit of Advair. It took a week of talking to doctors and insurance drones to figure out that they were pushing her to an alternative that cost them $100 less. If I woke up tomorrow and people were burni…
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Re: 42 percent of new cancer patients lose their life savings
#9Feels like the headline should include "In America". This certainly doesn't happen in the rest of the civilized world.
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#10Earlier quoted context omitted.
Can't she get a job?
And spend the rest of her life paying back medical debts that she shouldn't have to? To me, this sounds like indentured servitude and not acceptable in a first world country.
Divorce is an option.
Legally divorce then cut a new will to leave 100% to the wife before you start your treatment. That way she's only out half at most if the medical debts take everything.
You'd have to be careful to not treat any money or assets as communal but so long as you go through the motions there's not much anyone can do.