State:: Illinois

Occupation:: Housewife/Mother

My daughter is in the hospital. Her doctors told me, just yesterday, that she will not be ready to come home before the middle or end of next week. However, the doctor representing our health insurance company has…

State:: Connecticut

Occupation:: Database Operator

At an annual check up I informed the doctor of a specific issue. He took 3 vials of blood.

3 months later I was sent a bill for $6,500 for lab work!!

The insurance company claimed they don’t cover…

State:: Connecticut

Occupation:: Database Operator

The hospital facility where I was about to have my annual mammogram checked and confirmed I had insurance coverage.

2 months later I started receiving a bill as the physician the hospital had selected to READ the mammogram…

State:: Connecticut

Occupation:: Database Operator

My daughter needed an x-ray to determine if her arm was broken. As our local hospital is affiliated with our insurance we had her arm x-rayed there. The Dr. read the film and confirmed a hairline break,…

State:: MISSOURI

Occupation:: AUTO MECHANIC

I am writing about the problem I have had with my husband’s insurance company (he is an auto mechanic in St. Louis, MO). We have a daughter who is 19 years old, goes to school as a…

State:: Massachusetts

Occupation:: Sr Software Engineer

Caught between the cracks of Health Care reform

I find myself caught in what I believe is a crack in Health Care reform. I’m a salaried worker who now finds himself unemployed and without health care insurance.…

State:: New York

Occupation:: Auto Mechanic

This is just great, my employer changed our health insurance again, instead of having an office visit deductible of thirty dollars, I am now required to pay the first $1500 for treatment costs per year and…

State:: Massachusetts

Occupation:: Unemployed

I have been unemployed for 2 years. I have somehow managed to keep paying $1600/month for family health insurance. But this plan doesn’t cover the first $6000/year of the family health care, which basically means it covers nothing.…

State:: New Jersey

Occupation:: Bookkeeper

I am in desperate need of health insurance. Every where I turn it is not affordable to me. In February I was in the hospital for 3 days for inflamed intestines, they released me and told…

State:: Massachusetts

Occupation:: Retired R.N.

In 1999 I had a gastric bypass surgery and as a result lost more than half my body weight. However, my thyroid went off, I got chronic Iron Deficiency Anemia, and a horrid Insomnia that no matter…