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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...