Alma Alexander – appeal

[jacey]

Originally posted by maryvictoria at Alma Alexander – appeal

Originally published at Mary Victoria. Please leave any comments there.

The US health care system isn’t all that, as we know. It charges you for dying.

There must be a Kafka story resembling this somewhere. Or at least, Kafka would have written the tale, had he been alive in our times, in the land of the free, home of the terminally ill. To confront one’s own mortality is one thing. To let a loved one go, quite another.

But to be charged $20000 for it, after a mere two days, is close to unconscionable.

Please read this appeal. Even if you can’t spare a dime, pass the word along. Alma is a storyteller of the first order. This time, unfortunately, the story is true.

THE STORY OF THE WHITE RABBIT

Comments

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

Oh, that is heartbreakingly disgusting. and true--my daughter was whacked with three thousand bucks for an emergency care visit during which most of the five hours was spent sitting in a hallway waiting to be looked at while she bled.

They are still chasing her.

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

I truly worry for my American friends. Neither authors nor folksingers have a lot of money to spare for insurance and it seems that even when they have insurance in never covers what ails them.

The British National Health Service may hve been diminished by a series of bad governmental decisions, but at least you're not likely to bankrupt either yourself or your loved ones if the worst happens.

If you have something seriously wrong then the NHS swings into action quickly and, for the most part, efficiently. And there asre no bills at the end of it.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

I know people who have talked about moving to Canada . . . except, do they really want more Americans up there? Especially old ones? I don't think so!

[birdsedge.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure how the Canadian health system works, especially if you are not a Canadian citizen. I do know that my husband once got charged $100 for 4 paracetamol (acetominaphen) tablets from the emergency room of a Canadian hospital for a horribly painful tooth ache. The dentist who fixed it the following morning came out and opened up his surgery in a snowstorm, did a root canal filling, and charged $50.

[sartorias.livejournal.com]

The first sounds like hospitals here, but the second? Wow! I know friends in Arizona who drive down to Mexico to get dental work done, as none of them can afford it here.