WashingtonTimes- Here’s a story the liberals don’t want you to know — a real Jimmy Kimmel-type tearjerker, with a twist.
In April of 2008, my husband, Doug, suffered a massive heart attack. It happened during the work day; his boss called me and said the ambulance had just transported my husband to the hospital. There’s a call you never want to get.
So I drove to the hospital, only to find emergency workers were going to airlift him to another facility, one about an hour’s drive from home. I said goodbye to my husband, who was in considerable pain but still conscious and talking — though barely — and told him I would meet him at the next hospital. I had to go home and get our four kids, ages 13, 12, 6 and 1 at the time.
Unbeknownst to me, Doug’s potassium levels dipped to dangerous levels during the helicopter flight, and he nearly died. As it was, he fell into a coma.
Hours later — this is the Washington, D.C., area, the traffic nightmare capital of the free world — I arrived at the hospital, kids in tow, and met with a doctor. The news was not good.
The physician, now retired, Dr. Siriprakorn, kept shaking his head as he looked at my kids playing in the waiting area, saying over and over, “this isn’t good.” Basically, they couldn’t keep his heart beating. It just rattled in his chest, is how someone described it to me.
Wow. Just wow.
I had a similar experience with my husband. His hospital bill after 2 months was 1 million 807 thousand dollars and 27 cents. Humana paid all but $150 and I don’t know what that was for, I just paid it.
My experience with BCBS is polar opposite. They were my insurer 3 different times in my life. They denied everything. Double and even triple billing. All they really do is pass paperwork around and cash checks…….Luckily, they are the only provider available to me in my region and maybe the entire state…….Lets just say that they need a bigger hat to fit their swollen head in….