Nothin'. I just wanted you to face me so she could get behind ya.

Mal ,'The Train Job'


Spike's Bitches 46: Don't I get a cookie?  

[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risqué (and frisqué), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.


ChiKat - Aug 31, 2010 5:01:57 am PDT #685 of 30000
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?

I've been feeling very lucky with my health insurance lately as well

I understand this. When I was sick a few years ago (8 years ago now!! Cancer-free for 7 years, babee!), I ended up paying something like $200 out of pocket and that was it. Considering all the tests, scans, radiation, and 2 surgeries? That rocked. I was truly very very lucky.


beekaytee - Aug 31, 2010 5:12:20 am PDT #686 of 30000
Compassionately intolerant

7 years! Wooot!


Lee - Aug 31, 2010 5:15:57 am PDT #687 of 30000
The feeling you get when your brain finally lets your heart get in its pants.

When I was sick a few years ago (8 years ago now!! Cancer-free for 7 years, babee!), I ended up paying something like $200 out of pocket and that was it. Considering all the tests, scans, radiation, and 2 surgeries? That rocked. I was truly very very lucky.

This is AWESOME on so many levels.


Volans - Aug 31, 2010 5:17:19 am PDT #688 of 30000
move out and draw fire

The penultimate day of my Aussie friend's stay here, she had to go to the ER with a kidney stone. (Yay for getting it BEFORE the 21 hour flight rather than during).

$6000.

And that was after she negotiated it down. Which I didn't know you could do, but she pointed out that she was a tourist. I just sent her the bills from the ER; hopefully her Oz insurance will cover a lot of it.


Pix - Aug 31, 2010 5:23:58 am PDT #689 of 30000
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie

Yay cancer free!

I don't have many choices with my health care. We have one HMO plan through work, and it's 20/80 for surgical procedures (the most expensive, of course). The copays in network for normal doctor's visits and such are very reasonable, but nsm big stuff. Now I know.

As for the certification, it's completely voluntary. Teachers need state certification to teach in public schools (none needed for private schools), but the national certification is basically a big, expensive feather in your cap. Kat is certified as well, but we are rarities. I don't know what the numbers are now, but when I got certified in 2001, there were only 50,000 of us in the country.


billytea - Aug 31, 2010 5:34:34 am PDT #690 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

And that was after she negotiated it down. Which I didn't know you could do, but she pointed out that she was a tourist. I just sent her the bills from the ER; hopefully her Oz insurance will cover a lot of it.

I'm pretty sure it wouldn't be covered under Medicare, being outside the country. I always get travel medical insurance for that reason, which should be pretty comprehensive. (I would especially do so for travelling to America, for I have been billed by American doctors before.)


Volans - Aug 31, 2010 5:47:15 am PDT #691 of 30000
move out and draw fire

I always get travel medical insurance for that reason, which should be pretty comprehensive.

She had this as well. I wouldn't have even thought of it.


billytea - Aug 31, 2010 5:51:24 am PDT #692 of 30000
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.

She had this as well. I wouldn't have even thought of it.

That should be fine then, she should be covered for the bill (maybe a capped copay).


Fred Pete - Aug 31, 2010 5:52:01 am PDT #693 of 30000
Ann, that's a ferret.

Cancer-free for 7 years, babee!

Yay! That's considered a cure, correct?


Ginger - Aug 31, 2010 6:10:29 am PDT #694 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda

That's considered a cure, correct?

Past five years, the odds of recurrence drop significantly, anyway. (Go, ChiKat! Go, me!)

If I had to have surgery, I'd be out of pocket $3,000 plus. I am one of those people who has to buy her own insurance, and I had to go to a higher deductible plan this year or my monthly payment would have gone from $500 to $750. Most office visits and tests are set co-pays, but I pay 20% on things like surgery.

In my case, Kaiser's spent at least half a million on me, so I can't say I haven't gotten my money's worth.