04-02-2014, 10:13 AM
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It's 42
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Global
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Let me tell you a real story.
Last year, someone I know, who was uninsured, was loading his mud-bogging 4x4 monster Jeep onto a trailer with a hoist -- the vehicle was disabled and it was too wide for the trailer. He had the trailer mickey moused to hold the Jeep's width (stupid -- accident waiting to happen) -- the truck slipped off the trailer and he ended up with broken ribs and a punctured lung.
He didn't go to the hospital right away -- the lung got infected. No insurance, yadda yadda, waited until he was nearly dead, had to be talked into consenting for the surgery by a friend in the end. After 10 days in the hospital, the bill was near $245,000.00
He will bankrupt, lose his house, and in the end: The Federal government will reimburse the hospital maybe $35K of the bill. He doesn't have much now and he will have nothing but his future life to live.
For a lot of people that is CapitalistCare in America.
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