Reply #96: Your last para is absolutely, positively spot on!

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A civilized country ensures that ALL of its citizens have access to quality health care that does not refuse, haggle with or bankrupt them.

Thanks for sharing this story, ThomWV. The tragedy is that such medical issues/complications, etc. are more typical than not when people cannot afford to see their doctors on a routine basis and most have no satisfactory resolution because the godawful system that the US calls "health care" is truly dysfunctional - not because we don't have plenty of dedicated, qualified medical personnel - but because those same medical personnel are not even the ones allowed to make the treatment decisions so long as profit is the primary consideration.

I am so glad that you are feeling so feisty after your own surgery. Please get completely recovered soon! :loveya: