Update on Miss M (or US Healthcare Sucks)
Here’s an update on my friend, Miss M. She’s received the bill from the hospital for her ER stay, and including a 40% non-insurance discount, the total for that bill is over US$8,000. This means Miss M now needs to raise over US$10,000 before she can even schedule her surgery. The goalpost just jumped by over 375% (Tim says about 384%). Again, this doesn’t include ANY of the fees/charges involved with her eventual surgery or interim OB/GYN visits.
[photo above © M. Turner]
I know you’re probably getting sick of seeing me post about this, but M is one of my nearest and dearest. I won’t beg for you to help her, but new items have been added to PhoenixFunds, including some photographs I have submitted. Please take a look at either Miss M’s shop, PhoenixFunds, or her direct website. Again, if you are a crafter or artist and would like to donate an item to be sold for Miss M’s benefit, please contact me in the comments..
Her Website: http://giveneyestosee.com/blog
Blow-by-blow: http://giveneyestosee.com/blog/hysterectomy/
Donation Storefront: http://PhoenixFunds.etsy.com
Her Storefront: http://PhoenixFireDesigns.etsy.com
Her Website: http://www.phoenixfiredesigns.com
Please pass these links along, re-tweet them, put them on Facebook, write a blog entry about Miss M, pass along my blog links…anything we can do to “boost the signal” and to help get M the help she needs. Especially if you’ve got any crafty friends because we are in need of crafty items!
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It’s my hope that my charity application with the hospital will pay for at least some of the $8,008.32 I owe the hospital. I don’t know yet though, I submitted my paperwork and now I just have to wait. They didn’t take Love’s income into account though on that paperwork and my income alone puts me below the federal poverty line so I hope it gets covered.
At worse, I’m hoping that if they don’t pay all (or any) of the bill, if I just keep paying $20/month or something, it keeps my account current and should hopefully keep them from preventing me from scheduling the surgery.
It’s just all so insanely complicated and difficult.
I hope it goes through. Since they aren’t including S’s income, surely they have to give you aid considering you’ve currently got 0 coming in. How were the leads with news related people? I’m doing all I can on my end to help!
No word back from any news source yet. :/
Your “Don’t get Sick in America” post got re-blogged over on Hysterectomy Daily (http://paper.li/tag/hysterectomy) from my retweet of your tweet, and your fundraiser tweet was also posted by them.
Check your email. One of the papers I wrote to wrote me back!