Cost of Cancer

> Posted 16 Feb 08 in Hodgkin's Disease

A visitor asked how much my year of cancer cost. Not including the problems I had this year, my insurance company was billed approximately $477,000.00 in 2007. I paid “only” a $2,000.00 deductible and spent “only” $1,400.00 out of pocket in drug copays.

Even with the help of my folks, I exhausted my savings. Most 27 year olds don’t have $3,400.00 just laying around, especially when they need to stop working for awhile.

Ah.  I forgot every time I went to see a doctor, I got billed $25.00 as a co-pay.  I saw my primary care doctor once, three surgeons, a cardiologist, and a lung doctor.  I also saw my oncologist (or a partner) 18 times in 2007.  So to my out of pocket expenses, add on another $500.00 or so.

I am not complaining, I am grateful I had / have health insurance. But a note to anyone reading this from Cleveland-Marshall College of Law — that was my law school. This is why I get angry when people from the law school call and ask me to donate $500.00 three or four times per year even after I ask them to please stop calling.

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