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Dang, you got a full body renovation. You don't seem that upset about the million dollar bill. Did your insurance cover it all?
On Oct. 20, 1972, Nixon signed H.R. 1 into law. The law automatically qualified anyone with chronic renal disease, anyone who would need a kidney transplant, for Medicare, regardless of age.
So Medicare covers transplants and post care for a period and I was eligible even at my relatively young age, early 30s.
That said, the poor life choices that I made that led to needing the transplants also left me in a pretty big financial hole before healthcare and I had a month long hospital stay long before the transplant when I first got really sick.
In the end I filed for bankruptcy to free myself from the medical debt but also to get a clean start on the life I fucked up.
Even with the existing social safety nets it’s incredibly easy to go broke with our healthcare system.