re: #35 Backwoods_Sleuth

There is no point to having insurance then, is there?

Really. I mean, $17,000+ just for added premiums for pregnancy? I mentioned here once before that my mom still the hospital bill for my world debut. It comes to something like $127, and that included ten nights in the hospital, since in those days a long rest was considered best for new mothers. The anesthesiologist charged $3.50. That’s correct: three dollars and fifty cents. Two weeks of my dad’s pay as a sergeant in the Army Air Corps, far from a princely sum, could cover it all.

True, this was in the days shortly after doctors stopped using leeches, but still it seems a long and not altogether wonderful way for our nation to have come.