On an earlier post, I informed you of the cost of a chemo treatment. $20.000.00 Well I looked at the bill and noticed it is actually $20.700.00. Maybe you are asking yourself, “Why is he quibbling over $700.00?” Read on it gets better.
When I go back on Wednesday to have the pump removed I receive a shot. 1 {one} shot. It stimulates the bone marrow to produce more white blood cells. I figured the cost was included in the chemo price. Well, good people, I was wrong The cost of 1 {one} shot is $6.700.00 bringing the total cost of a chemo treatment to $27,700.00. I take two treatments a month...you do the math.
Pardon me for the heavy breathing and scraping sounds you hear, as that’s me climbing upon my soap box. I realize these price are what the doctor charges, not what the insurance companies pay. They still pay a very high price. These prices are outrageous. No way can the average person pay this. Twelve treatments would be over $300.000.00. I am blessed to have insurance through the county I work for. My question is, "What do people do who have no insurance?" In my case, it would be go home and die.
With all the advances we have in medicine I cannot believe it costs that much to produce a chemo treatment. On TV, I see all the suffering, people out of work, homes being foreclosed, parents who have no means to provide Christmas their kids, older people who must decide between medicine or food. And yet corporate America is not dropping any prices. Profits keep rolling in to the companies. And we the people keep paying the price.
Enough venting. What you have no control over you should not worry about. I don’t know what the future holds, but I know who holds the future. MERRY CHRISTMAS to each of you. May GOD bless you as richly as HE has blessed me.
Wayne
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