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17 Aug 2009 08:45 pm
by Patrick Appel
Many readers have asked for all the sickbed stories to be put in one place. Here are links to the posts from week one in mostly chronological order:
Can You Give Me A Ride?: I Can't Afford The Ambulance The Baby Isn't Insured Watching My Costs Skyrocket Seizures In Public Places: Avoiding The Ambulance Your Newborn Son Has A Preexisting Condition My Insurance Company Got A 96% Discount! Working For A National Insurance Company: The Payment Process The $10,000 CystGold-Plated Insurance: Denying Vaccination To Premature Babies
Can You Give Me A Ride?: I Can't Afford The Ambulance
The Baby Isn't Insured
Watching My Costs Skyrocket
Seizures In Public Places: Avoiding The Ambulance
Your Newborn Son Has A Preexisting Condition
My Insurance Company Got A 96% Discount!
Working For A National Insurance Company: The Payment Process
The $10,000 Cyst
And here are week two's posts organized by theme:
Not Starting A Small Business Because Of Health Care Costs
HIV And Entrepreneurship HIV And Entrepreneurship II
HIV And Entrepreneurship
HIV And Entrepreneurship II
What Does That Cost?
A Bankruptcy Lawyer: Opaque Costs Are The Worst Part Of Our Health Care System Planning A Pregnancy: Trying To Get The Bill Up Front Electronic Medical Billing Company: Mark Ups For The Uninsured Authorizing Treatments: The Whole Gory Process A $15,000 Needle The $15,000 Needle II: No Incentive For A Surgeon To Save Money No Incentive For An Emergency Room Physician To Save Money EitherA Small Practice: The Costs Of Getting Approval
A Bankruptcy Lawyer: Opaque Costs Are The Worst Part Of Our Health Care System
Planning A Pregnancy: Trying To Get The Bill Up Front
Electronic Medical Billing Company: Mark Ups For The Uninsured
Authorizing Treatments: The Whole Gory Process
A $15,000 Needle
The $15,000 Needle II: No Incentive For A Surgeon To Save Money
No Incentive For An Emergency Room Physician To Save Money Either
A Small Practice: The Costs Of Getting Approval
Health Savings Accounts: Pro And Con
Plumbing The Depths of Ignorance: Negotiating Health Care Fees And Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) HSAs: The Case Against I Loved My HSA A HSA Salesman: Separating The Healthy From The Sick Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs): Whose Bottom Line? HSAs: Group vs. Individual Plans
Plumbing The Depths of Ignorance: Negotiating Health Care Fees And Health Savings Accounts (HSAs)
HSAs: The Case Against
I Loved My HSA
A HSA Salesman: Separating The Healthy From The Sick
Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs): Whose Bottom Line?
HSAs: Group vs. Individual Plans
Odds And Ends:
Advance Health Care Directives: I Want To Go Like Mimi Did At The VA Hospital: In And Out In 45 Minutes The Underinsured: Between Full Employment And Medicare Narcolepsy, Drug Costs, And Work: A Catch 22 Approving, Then Rejecting Coverage Gastric Bypass: Waiting Ten Years Gastric Bypass II: Don't Blame Insurance? Bipolar Disorder And Mental Health: Section 14
Advance Health Care Directives: I Want To Go Like Mimi Did
At The VA Hospital: In And Out In 45 Minutes
The Underinsured: Between Full Employment And Medicare
Narcolepsy, Drug Costs, And Work: A Catch 22
Approving, Then Rejecting Coverage
Gastric Bypass: Waiting Ten Years
Gastric Bypass II: Don't Blame Insurance?
Bipolar Disorder And Mental Health: Section 14
I will try to update this at least once a week. Let me know if I have messed up a link or forgotten any posts and please keep sending your stories to andrew@theatlantic.com. Thanks to everyone for sharing.
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