America's Healthcare System
I got home from work yesterday to an email from my brother, Steve , that just said: Sitting here, crying, and reading this. http://boingboing.net/2012/04/ 18/on-cost-and-cancer-in- america.html Weird thing is, the woman who wrote it - I emailed her earlier that day. I started following her on twitter after my treatments were over and I felt like I was mentally able to go searching online for other cancer survivors, patients, etc. (I was NOT up to this at all DURING treatment. Not even a little...) Again with the serendipity thing. But that's not my point today. My point today is that it was a struggle to read this entire article. In fact, if we're being honest here, I couldn't read it all. One, because it was just SO UPSETTING. And two, as I got into reading it, I realized that I had no idea what MY cancer cost has been so far. So I logged onto my insurance company's website, and grabbed a calculator. It's ha...