hepatitisC

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hepatitisC635 karma

It is pretty fucked up. There are advantages, but for the most part it's just corporate types getting rich at the expense of helping those in need. It's one of the main reasons I left health care. I got very sick of being told I couldn't do something I knew would help somebody just because they had the wrong type of insurance

hepatitisC628 karma

"Health insurance bills totaled over 2.5 million. We ended up being dropped by my parent's insurance company after a couple of years. We were their most expensive client in history. My parent's ended up having to search through over 100 insurance companies before they found one that would cover us. Even then, they only agreed to cover 3 of us since my brother and one sister had severe complications still. My parent's had some big worries about bills from both their portion of the insurance and from buying food/clothes/diapers for all of us. The community really helped us out a lot, but we tried hard not to be a hand-out case."

hepatitisC464 karma

"Sweet, I win the pot. Pay up. There was a lot of karma in that pot, and I think the going rate is still 5000 upvotes to 0 American dollars"

hepatitisC438 karma

"Yep.

This is of 4/5 of us. You can see the breathing tubes that 3 of us have.
http://i.imgur.com/wjHni.jpg

This is a Christmas card photo when we were little. I'm the awesome, pirate-looking one in the middle. I guess that makes me a....squint-tuplet?
http://i.imgur.com/Hk8BL.jpg "

hepatitisC404 karma

"My brother has CP but he's the most severe of us (his isn't terrible...he needs a walker but can drive and work). After birth, we had several complications due to being born 10 weeks early. Three of us ended up having heart surgery and collapsed lungs actually. One of my sister's had breathing tubes until age 3 and had to have oxygen 24-7. She also required round the clock nursing care. I personally had heart surgery, my lungs collapsed, and I had seizures until I was 1. My heart stopped twice and I had to be resuscitated. I have some pretty big scars from all of it."

If this gets close to FP, she said she'll let me show you guys some pictures of the scars