Cancer Treatment

[SheilaT]

5. Ahh, yes.

We have the greatest health care system in the world, according to some. No. We have a pretty good state-of-the-art system that pays only some of the bills.

And, as I understand it, around half of all personal bankruptcies are because of medical bills, such as your friend is facing. In all honesty, she should just plan on getting treated and then declaring bankruptcy. Although before that, they need to try to determine if the same treatment elsewhere would be less expensive, if there is some other realistic course of treatment that would cost less, and perhaps challenge the actually charges themselves. Although in other first world countries, people don't go through this bullshit.