RE: Man Uses $1m Win To Finally Visit Doctor, Gets Terminal Cancer Diagnosis, Dies
February 5, 2018 at 4:59 pm
(This post was last modified: February 5, 2018 at 5:02 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Could cut mine to zero and I'd still be insured. Peace of mind is priceless...now, if only I didn't have to worry about my kids, and watching all of my hard work just pizzle away when they get hurt.
I've been there before, when the big girl was born. The wife and I put in a combined 120-140ish hrs a week, neither of us anywhere near min wage..and then spent about 10 more every week just driving to the hospital for tests, treatment, physical. Took..oh, idk, 3 months to completely exhaust our insurance, savings, sanity. Got a car repoed, had to move into a shithole, she lost her job, then we had to move in with friends out of state, sold everything we owned that we could sell, had to move back to FL, ended up on wic and snap. Probably about one flat tire away from divorce. All of this during the recession, mind you. OFC, when we ran out of insurance, and couldn't come out of pocket anymore, we were informed that..hey, you know, there really wasn't anything else that could be done. Not that anything had been done, mind you. Info we could have used much earlier I imagine..but there was money to be made!
It was a real fucking blast, I can totally see how some poor fucker with no service benefits, property, college, connections or extended family and friends could bootstrap up and out on minimum wage by "spending and working smarter".
I've been there before, when the big girl was born. The wife and I put in a combined 120-140ish hrs a week, neither of us anywhere near min wage..and then spent about 10 more every week just driving to the hospital for tests, treatment, physical. Took..oh, idk, 3 months to completely exhaust our insurance, savings, sanity. Got a car repoed, had to move into a shithole, she lost her job, then we had to move in with friends out of state, sold everything we owned that we could sell, had to move back to FL, ended up on wic and snap. Probably about one flat tire away from divorce. All of this during the recession, mind you. OFC, when we ran out of insurance, and couldn't come out of pocket anymore, we were informed that..hey, you know, there really wasn't anything else that could be done. Not that anything had been done, mind you. Info we could have used much earlier I imagine..but there was money to be made!
It was a real fucking blast, I can totally see how some poor fucker with no service benefits, property, college, connections or extended family and friends could bootstrap up and out on minimum wage by "spending and working smarter".
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