If you’ve never told this story before, I think there is another FReeper with a similar story. Some unforeseen income made him or her need to PAY BACK his subsidy. Insane.
There should be no subsidies parceled out like this. Health care should be like clothing or food. You should pay the market rate, and there should be a fulll market of services and practitioners mushrooming up with different prices, just as boxes of cereal or eggs or apples all have a range of prices.
If you don’t have a health share for yourself and your wife, I HIGHLY recommend you look into them. All FReepers qualify (under the beliefs clauses of self reliance and Gd — they might not qualify with poor health tho). I have Liberty for the last two years and I am deeply grateful for them.
https://www.libertyhealthshare.org
Only $500 a month for 6 people. After $1500 (total) is paid, they will pay 100% of our Med bills. From any doctor or health care practitioner in the country. No meds or mental health is paid, nor cosmetic surgery. Or abortion or sex transition surgery, dang. ;)
We are very happy with them. We live in the rare world of actual medical costs, we doctor shop, procedure shop, refuse unnecessary doc-cya tests, and are good medical consumers.
(Crimson cheeks)
This is an old thread. No wonder I remember this. And I already mentioned health shares a 100 posts ago. Shucks.