https://splinternews.com/how-people-die-in-america-1822743566
Article says it all...
Last week I published a long story about my near-fatal bacterial infection six months ago, and the material benefits that kept me alive. Since the piece ran I have been completely overwhelmed by reader responses.
Everyone, it seems, knows someone who has been financially ruined—or, in a roundabout way, killed—by the opaque mechanizations of our privatized health care system.
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Is this way to live? I say no...
Someone sent me a link to this story about Susan Moore, a woman in Kentucky who elected to stop the dialysis she needed to stay alive because she couldn’t afford to travel to the medical center three times a day.
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When my father was stuck in an ICU for 6 months suffering from an undiagnosed ailment - that later turned out to be chronic leukemia, the hospital would threaten to release him home to “hospice”. Not having a diagnosis neither he nor us was ready to give up. But since he had no insurance, the hospital
He died anyway because they never thought to run any tests for leukemia until he was transferred to an long term intensive care in another city. By the time it was diagnosed diagnosed properly the untreated cancer had been neglected too long and he was gone within months.
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Now is this what healthcare has become? Now there are people who want to get rid of the Affordable Care Act. AFFORDABLE.. But.. with a sect of people who believe they are paying for people on this plan. Subsidies pay..
(PART 2 to follow)
EDITORS NOTE: My father died in 2002 from a doctors error who nicked his bladder (he was a dialysis patient) and bled for 90 days. Medicare and doctors took advantage of the system. I tried getting help but I was laid off.
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