Eisboch wrote:
"Boater" wrote in message
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Tom Francis - SWSports wrote:
I'll give you an example. My back operation cost $14,356 in total
which was cheap considering that the main surgeon and assistant were
freebies. That includes room, operating room, drugs, anesthesia,
yada, yada, yada.

My copay for that was $2,300. A UAW retiree, the guy who put four
screws in the afore mentioned dashboard for his career, for that same
operation, which would have included surgeon and assistant fees
totaling about $21,000, would have been $4.

A pre-packaged Chapter1 bankruptcy would allow for restructuring the
health care provisions to something a little more reasonable.

"Restructurings" usually are much harder on the working stiffs than the
management pukes. And why should a retiree on a fixed income have to fork
over $2300 for necessary surgery?



It's called a deductable Harry, something anyone should be prepared for and
also reduces health care premiums somewhat. I'll bet the overall savings
in premium payments by having a reasonable deductable more than covers the
$2,300 over the longer term. In major, long term illnesses, the deductable
is usually capped on a yearly basis, last time I checked.


One more time: most retirees on fixed incomes cannot afford to lay out
$2300 for necessary surgery. You're a rich retiree. Your perspective is
not relevant to retirees who are trying to decide whether to buy food or
medicine because they cannot afford both.