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20. My inhaler, which is needed to breathe, rose to $700 a month.
Mon Feb 17, 2025, 10:46 AM
Feb 2025

Insurance stalled and denied me on my operation for several months, long enough for my employer to fire me, so my insurance could retroactively withdraw coverage to a date two months before my surgery, so now I'm on the hook for 40K for something that I THOUGHT I was covered for. So between that and other medical procedures, I'm almost 150k in debt for medical care that I was told was entirely covered yet now it's just... not.

So my wife and I, we gave up. We're leaving the country. I paid in 8k in Year To Date insurance payments, and when push came to shove, Insurance stalled me out until they could retroactively deny me coverage for procedures already undergone. Now, my entire financial future is in ruins. Why? Because I did what I was supposed to do. I followed "The System'. I did everything I was supposed to do.

The sad thing is, I don't even think this is about Trump or Biden; This is just how America is, and my wife and I finally gave in and said "We deserve better". So we're leaving.

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And somehow he's more popular than ever TheFarseer Feb 2025 #1
Every night there should be a special section callled: Baitball Blogger Feb 2025 #2
Do you really believe that? displacedvermoter Feb 2025 #6
Keith Olbermann had a good idea BonnieJW Feb 2025 #14
Wow! Terrific idea! I love Olbermann's concept. wordstroken Feb 2025 #22
In addition, Dems should do the very same as what maga Alliepoo Feb 2025 #34
I agree. And it should absolutely be Pete pinkstarburst Feb 2025 #39
The carnage orangecrush Feb 2025 #15
I disagree nwduke Feb 2025 #19
According to polls, he's more popular than literally ever. TheFarseer Feb 2025 #37
How about we fix the real problem which is voter fraud and suppression. 58Sunliner Feb 2025 #33
Well, RFK, Jr. has it all liberalhistorian Feb 2025 #3
We need to take action!!!!!! bdamomma Feb 2025 #4
Financial meltdown will cause a lot of things bucolic_frolic Feb 2025 #5
And I am reading that China, Canada and Europe are circumventing the US Baitball Blogger Feb 2025 #9
I read somewhere recently that the goal is to COL Mustard Feb 2025 #18
George W. Bush told us. "The Ownership Society". bucolic_frolic Feb 2025 #31
My MAGA family SARose Feb 2025 #7
They just leave out one part of the sentence. OldBaldy1701E Feb 2025 #10
Those people SARose Feb 2025 #23
Got many a family member who is that way myself. OldBaldy1701E Feb 2025 #30
And the corporate media is complacence................ Lovie777 Feb 2025 #8
More than compliant. OldBaldy1701E Feb 2025 #32
Let's hope the don't get to the last stage of Grief--acceptance. Let's hope they get angry and resist like hell. Timeflyer Feb 2025 #11
I don't care what happens to anyone who voted for him. Orrex Feb 2025 #12
That is exactly how I feel. SammyWinstonJack Feb 2025 #16
It's a coup of stupidity and compliance. Shame on Congress & the press. Joinfortmill Feb 2025 #13
i havent sung the national anthem or said the pledge for years . i walk out and then come back in. AllaN01Bear Feb 2025 #17
My inhaler, which is needed to breathe, rose to $700 a month. Hellbound Hellhound Feb 2025 #20
That's horrible. Where are you moving to? 58Sunliner Feb 2025 #35
Australia. My wife's a national. Hellbound Hellhound Feb 2025 #36
All things we knew would happen if he got elected. GoodRaisin Feb 2025 #21
I worry about SNAP recipients and Section 8 families tishaLA Feb 2025 #24
As a poor retired senior I get $91/month in SNAP benefits but $184/month from my much hated here at DU elocs Feb 2025 #28
They seem to have ignored Newton's law, justhanginon Feb 2025 #25
Or are forced to go off their meds? Deep State Witch Feb 2025 #26
After things went south with Morning Joe -- Grammy23 Feb 2025 #27
I just saw a very good podcast about the mental takeover of America. Baitball Blogger Feb 2025 #29
The last time I tuned into GMA was about 11 years ago Orrex Feb 2025 #38
They will be told to be ready to make the "Ultimate Sacrifice" for their country and have "America, Love it or Leave it" Ping Tung Feb 2025 #40
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