Re: Pearls Before Swine: Uncle Is Not Good With Money

On Mon, 27 Jan 2025, Lynn McGuire wrote:

On 1/25/2025 4:51 AM, D wrote:

  On Sat, 25 Jan 2025, Lynn McGuire wrote:
 

On 1/25/2025 12:25 AM, Robert Woodward wrote:

In article <vmuibl$1rpvo$2@dont-email.me>,
  Lynn McGuire <lynnmcguire5@gmail.com> wrote:
 

On 1/23/2025 3:38 PM, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
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      bliss - surgery tomorrow so maybe the hobble will be less
eventually.

 Good luck on your surgery.  I will pray for you, your doctors, and your
nurses.
 

 As do I who had surgery today (and will be hobbling for weeks while I
heal).

 Good luck on your healing.  I prayed for you too.
 I have not been in surgery since 2018 and I hope to keep it that way. That was my second heart surgery and it had a good outcome but was too eventful for the electrocardiologist and me both.  I woke up in the middle of the surgery when they accidentally nicked my uvula with a sonogram wand and I lost a couple of pints of blood which started me coughing while intubated.
 Lynn

 How much was the cost of the surgery? I frequently hear horror stories from democrats saying it costs millions of dollars and that you cannot live in the US due to the high cost of operations like that.

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My out of pocket cost was about $5,000 if I remember correctly.  My health insurance paid around $10,000 or so.  That covered three days of testing before the surgery and the surgery itself.
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If you did not have health insurance then I would guess 10X, $150,000.
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Lynn

Thank you Lynn. Wow, that's quite a figure! Makes me wonder if there's "underground" clinics focusing on earning money from people with no, or bad insurance?
I also wonder if there are cheaper clinics in mexico?
In europe it is common for people who do not want to wait in line for months or years to go to other countries, and for some procedures, go to eastern europe or asia, since it is cheaper there and quicker.