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3 responses to “Health insurance saved us this time for sure. But what about people who don't work for large companies?”

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   Jenny

   January 21, 2007

   wow. that is a hell of a lot of money. isnt insurance wonderful? :D

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   Diana

   January 21, 2007

   Health care is so expensive. Neither of us work for a large company but we have excellent insurance, thank goodness. I won’t even go into what The Princess’ birth cost – but you could take a shot in the dark and I’m sure no one would guess it was cheap (preemie, week stay prior to birth for mom, week stay in NICU after birth for baby “routine” preemie exams and tests – medical team large enough to fight a world war for the birth itself – yeah!), insurance is so necessary, it goes without saying that the US needs an over haul in that department!

   Glad you aren’t stuck with the bill on the surgery!

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   Bon

   January 22, 2007

   y’know, every time this issue crosses my radar (friends in the US, tv shows, blog friends) i end up kind of amazed that the American citizenry doesn’t just revolt. our Canadian system of universal medicare has tons of problems, true…long waits for surgeries, especially in bigger centres, and abuse of the system as unfortunately happens anytime something is free…but it’s free for everyone and i continue to believe that that rocks. i live in fear that we will devolve to the US system thanks to a lack of political will and increasing market pressure on our own system.

   we’ve had two preemies, with full neonatal intervention in the first case and many many weeks of hospital bedrest for me in the second. i feel a little sick when i think about what that cost…and sicker when i imagine what it would have cost had we moved to the US when i was three months pregnant with our first, instead of returning to Canada (we’d been teaching overseas). in both cases, i was healthy, taking my vitamins, and had been told by docs that my pregnancy should go fine. yikes.

   glad you’re insured. :)

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