Wow Donna!
$10K for each stent??? American health care costs are atrocious! (My THR implants cost about $9K, but I can see that cost just a LITTLE better...since it's so much larger. The flipside is, my implant wasn't to correct a life threatening malady, and your stents WERE!) I feel so badly for any U.S. citizen who doesn't have good insurance. Then again, we're ALL (gainfully employed U.S. citizens) paying the cost for folks who don't, won't, or can't pay when they go to the local ER, (by exhorbitant premiums and deductibles). This includes the millions of illegal aliens that grow by the hundreds, or thousands, each year. (I know that may be a touchy subject to some; if my statement offends, I apologize, but that's the simple truth). I'm NOT saying we should deny the illegals, or citizens who choose NOT to work for a living, "life saving health care", that would be quite unethical, but the cost is NOT just written off; we ALL absorb it). Sometimes I wonder if we wouldn't be better off with Socialized Health Care... I don't have all the facts, but it seems to me that there's got to be a better way, when 2 little braided metal hoses cost $20,000 dollars, and so many people who work hard all their lives have to lose almost everything when they get sick. That's just insane...
Oh well, I'm done venting...
~Dalton
~D.