The American healthcare system has been making the headlines recently.
But not for good reasons. The woman who was hurt by a bear said that the worst part of the horrific ordeal was dealing with health insurance providers. Think about the time when someone shared an invoice of $39.35 for holding her baby right after he was born? There have been one too many failed American healthcare stories that make us so angry.
This time we are sharing the horrifying story of Michelle DuBarry, a Portland-based writer. Her story shows how the greatest country on Earth has failed to provide its citizens with good care. After DuBarry’s 1-year-old son died after being struck by a careless driver, she “sat at his bedside, his tiny, stitched-together body hooked to a million incessantly beeping machines, straining to recall what our deductibles were.”
DuBarry’s heartbreaking Twitter post will make you question everything you took for granted in life.
The woman shared her personal story on Twitter
Michelle DuBarry shared her story in detail on her website.
“In 2010, my husband Eric and our son Seamus were struck by a careless driver in a crosswalk near our home. Eric sustained minor injuries, and Seamus died the next day after enduring two surgeries and a night in intensive care. Our hospital bills totaled $180,000, and though most of it was covered by health insurance, we still had thousands of dollars in out-of-pocket medical expenses.
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The family “soon learned that our health insurer was entitled to reimbursement out of these funds, effectively reducing our settlement to $0.” As a result, DuBarry initiated a bill that would match the laws in many other states where the injured party is “made whole” for all damages from the at-fault party’s insurance before the injured party’s medical insurer gets paid.
The bill was signed into law last year on the 20th of June and now stands as Seamus’s legacy.
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