Originally Posted by Marilyn Monroe

I did read your response. All of it. Sounds like they negotiated pretty chitty health insurance and now they have to go to arbitration which will take up to two years. That's ridiculous!

I've never heard of anyone having this kind of a problem with their health insurance where they had to pay. This is why you pay premiums so THEY pay. The union should lend you the money since it's really their fault in MHO.

You also said to trust doctors or something along that line in an ER. No way! I don't know them. My son had a ruptured appendix and the ER sent him home with the flu. He went back a week later and they had to do emergency surgery on him. I say trust noone. I would have gone to my PCP and gotten another opinion before I let my Mom sit with a broken jaw for two weeks. I know because my Mom had a massive heart attack and the doctors where she was going didn't even know it. After 6 weeks of going back and forth to the ER and staying in the hospital I switched her to a different hospital called in a different doctor, and she died that night as she was being treated in the ICU.

When it comes to your health you have to be very aware of what is going on, and do a lot of reading about your condition and so forth. I don't care if you have universal healthcare, insurance, whatever. It's still your life.