this world is so screwed up. I have Crohn's and a raging case of C-Diff. Insurance denied

[hunter]

59. Years ago we ran a COBRA plan to the bitter end.

When the COBRA timed out my wife was still undergoing very expensive treatments and she was still on the waiting list for our State's "high risk" insurance pool. It was hell. I'm certain people in similar situations simply give up and die.

My wife's been in remission long enough now to consider herself cured, but waiting for the results of lab tests five years later was still terrifying.

My brother had cancer, a very major surgery and chemotherapy that nearly killed him, and the health insurance he had at the time was woefully inadequate, leaving him bankrupt. After his year and a half of hell he simply quit going to the doctor. Live or die, he decided he wasn't going to go through that again. Fortunately, decades later, it's apparent the surgery and chemo worked.

The U.S.A. pretends it's a "first world" civilized nation, but it's not.