Uhmm.. try again.. $80 until the appointments go to every two weeks.... The insurance that my wife has didn't cover everything when she tore her ACL, other women in her office who have been pregnant have reported that the insurance doesn't cover everything.. we already know that it won't cover genetic testing...
-- Scott Stewart ColdFusion Developer 4405 Oakshyre Way Raleigh, NC 27616 (h) 919.874.6229 (c) 703.220.2835 -----Original Message----- From: G Money [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 8:52 AM To: cf-community Subject: Re: How I lost my health insurance at the hairstylist's $90 for an entire pregnancy of quality prenatal care. That's a bargain any way you slice it. How do you know you will have to pay several thousand? Is your wife's insurance not very robust or....? On Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 7:45 AM, Scott Stewart <[email protected]>wrote: > > I wanna know what insurance allows one co-pay for 9 months of care.. We > have > to pay a $10 co pay every time we go for a prenatal exam, and that's once a > month at this point.. and we're still gonna have to pay a few thousand > dollars once MacKenna is born to cover the hospital expenses that my wife's > insurance doesn't cover. > > -- > Scott Stewart > ColdFusion Developer > 4405 Oakshyre Way > Raleigh, NC 27616 > (h) 919.874.6229 (c) 703.220.2835 > -----Original Message----- > From: Scott Stroz [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Thursday, July 09, 2009 8:13 AM > To: cf-community > Subject: Re: How I lost my health insurance at the hairstylist's > > > I can share another story. > > My wife and I decided it was time to start having children. She got > pregnant, we paid a $20 co-pay on her first visit to OB/GYN. We paid > nothing for each subsequent visit. My wife went into labor and after > quite a few hours of labor, the Dr. decided that she needed a > c-section. Fast forward 24 hours and my son was diagnosed with a > stroke. He was moved to another hospital and spent 15 days in the > Neonatal ICU before being discharged. How much extra did the > unexpected c-section and stay in NICU cost us? Nothing. > > So, for $20 we got 9 months of doctors visits, including ultrasounds, > blook work, etc, PLUS a 4 day stay in hospital for surgery/recovery > PLUS a 15 day stay in an intensive care unit with blood work, MRIs, CT > Scans, etc. If that is broke, I would love to see how it would work > when its fixed. > > On Thu, Jul 9, 2009 at 8:06 AM, G Money<[email protected]> wrote: > > > > Let me tell you another story.... > > > > While out playing football with my friends, I come down awkwardly on my > > knee. It hurts for several days, so I go see my doctor. I pay him my $15 > > dollar co pay, he refers me to a knee specialist. The specialist sees me > the > > next day, diagnoses a torn ACL, suggests surgery if I want to remain > active. > > A week later, I have my elective surgery, then 6 months of rehab, and > > finally, a fitted, constructed-just-for-me knee brace. > > > > Total cost: $15 copay for initial visit. > > > > Immediate, top of the line care for an elective surgery to ensure a > better > > standard of living....for fifteen bucks. > > > > Now...I don't know if my experience is the exception or the rule.....but > > it's worth noting that there are those of us who've had nothing but good > > experiences with our "broken" health care system. > > > > On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 6:13 PM, Michael Grant <[email protected]> wrote: > > > >> > >> That's a brutal story. I count my lucky stars that I have nationalised > >> healthcare. Waiting an extra week for non-emergency care is worth it to > >> know > >> I'm at least going to get care. No matter what. > >> > >> This was a link at the bottom of the story. Pretty funny. Or sad, since > >> it's > >> pretty much true. > >> > >> > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzDwXr9szxw&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Edailykos% > > 2Ecom%2Fstory%2F2009%2F7%2F7%2F751100%2F%2DHow%2DI%2Dlost%2Dmy%2Dhealth%2Din <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzDwXr9szxw&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Edailykos %%0A2Ecom%2Fstory%2F2009%2F7%2F7%2F751100%2F%2DHow%2DI%2Dlost%2Dmy%2Dhealth% 2Din> > surance%2Dat%2Dthe%2Dhairstylists&feature=player_embedded > >> > >> On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 5:41 PM, Sandra Clark <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/7/7/751100/-How-I-lost-my-health-insu > >> > rance-at-the-hairstylists > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > > >> > >> > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:299676 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
