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In reply to the discussion: My Hospital Bill was $119,000 for 5 days [View all]riverbendviewgal
(4,251 posts)we are billed for TV use....
My son was diagnosed for Glioblastma Multiforme Brain Tumour in April 1998. He had seizures at work, his first ever. He was ambulanced to the local hospital then after a CT scan ambulanced to the big University hospital that night. 3 days later he was getting his first of 3 operations by the head neurosurgeon and University of Toronto head of neurology.
He then got radiation, chemo, counseling, blood transfusions, 5 weeks of intensive care after the 3rd operation and 1 week of palliative care in hospital. He died October 1999.
Two months after our son's diagnosis my husband was diagnosed with Non-Hodgkins Lymphoma.
He had one operation, radiation , chemo, a month long stay in hospital after his stem cells were harvested and then put back in him after a very aggressive chemo, home visits by a nurse, and finally 3 months of in hospital palliative care.
our bills - ZERO. We did have to pay parking fees at the hospital, which I found out later I could deduct as medical expenses
Up here we shake our heads at the Americans who don't want a health care system like us.
Last October I had a detached retina which my optometrist sent me to an eye surgeon, who saw me that same day and I was operated on by him 3 hours afterward in the hospital. I got to claim for a travel grant for gasoline as it was a two hour one way drive..
No bills.
You know once 2014 comes along, everyone in the USA will realize this new Obamacare is really a good thing.