12 years ago now my wife began exhibiting flulike symptoms, progressing to severe distress/hallucination and eventually wound up at Brigham and Women's in Boston in an induced coma while doctors searched for a donor liver to keep her alive. Fortunately she regained function on her own and has made a full recovery. The total bill for that little adventure exceeded 1.5 million back then. Our total copay including the deductible was about 15K. Still took us a couple years to get it paid off.
I would gladly forego all the racecars, bikes, boats, second homes, guns and vacations I may ever see to maintain insurance for us at any cost. Any of you who think you can win the healthcare lottery by avoiding catastrophic illness are deluding yourselves and risking financial ruin to save a couple thousand so you can play. Don't be a dumbass; get some kind of coverage.
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