Insurance and Healthcare

[SirMoby]

I have some friends that are doctors and one of them often prescribes a treatment that costs him over $5,000 to administer a single drug dosage.

The cost of insurance and health care has more then doubled since 2001. That's about the same increase we've seen in gas prices. The companies that have had record profits these past 6 years? You guessed it.

We need some serious change.

[ponygirl]

Originally Posted by SirMoby

I have some friends that are doctors and one of them often prescribes a treatment that costs him over $5,000 to administer a single drug dosage.

my husband takes Remicade every 6 weeks, which costs from $3500-$5000 for a single infusion. We are lucky in that his insurance coverage at work covers it (not without a fight, mind you) with the basic reality being if he didn't get the medication, they would be paying him for disabilty. I guess they figured it's cheaper this way. If we didn't have that coverage, I don't know what we'd be doing. I really don't know how some people do it, it's shameful that people go bankrupt paying for this stuff, or go without.

[Jim]

Originally Posted by SirMoby

I have some friends that are doctors and one of them often prescribes a treatment that costs him over $5,000 to administer a single drug dosage.

The cost of insurance and health care has more then doubled since 2001. That's about the same increase we've seen in gas prices. The companies that have had record profits these past 6 years? You guessed it.

We need some serious change.

See, that's why I keep saying to go through your local chamber of commerce. I have the ratecard from 8 years ago and it is exactly the same as the most recent. The chambers tied together in the insurance company's eyes are the largest employers in the country. And remember back when you filled out the paperwork for insurance from an employer. All you had to fill out was your name and ssn. That's the way it is through the chamber. No health questions included.

But I agree, everything health related is expensive. I thought $5k for a catscan was a good price

And while insurance seems expensive, imagine how long I could have had insurance for the price of $63,480.32. At my current rate for just my wife, I could have paid for insurance for almost 11.5 years for her. And remember, that money was for 1.5 months of tests.

[Yell]

Glad you found some insurance Jim. I know what it will cost you.

I have a one inch binder full of all paper work that my wife had done to her, I have not gone though it in a long time but i know that the cost was close to $500k and that was just from Roswell Park Cancer Institute. Her first surgery was at Mercy Hospital and i don't have that bill plus the home care she had that i did not add in and thats no joke maybe even more i would have to look.

My job we do have some good insurance but i still had a ton of copays that i had to pay and that was a lot.