Coming Home
TBG is being released today. The relief is palpable.... for both of us. The hospitalist managed to secure a follow up appointment with a doctor whose scheduler told me the next avaliable date was in November. Home health care is organized, and I had nothing to do with it. Behind the scenes, people were working and planning and all we had to do was say yes. His bills this year are close to $500,000, and that's without this 8 day plus surgery stay. We paid a manageable deductible. Procedures billed at thousands were magically reduced to hundreds because we have insurance. The uninsured pay the not-discounted-amount. It's easy to see why medical debt destroys families. Medicine in America is broken. None of the staff here received the 40% increase that TBG now is paying for h his insurance. Where did that money go? Gun violence is never acceptable. I can, however, understand the rage and fury and helplessness tha...