We have a high deductable insurance (BCBS IA) and we are all in good health. Premiums for family run $304, per month. Each family member gets a $500 credit to use towards a routine phyical or minor problem resolved in doctor's office.
MJ said:At the age of 57+, I am still in terrific physical shape.
Nords said:At the risk of lumping JG & Jarhead into the same category (sorry, Jarhead), are you guys both members of the same "blissfully ignorant" club?!?
REWahoo! said:Translation: I will be a fine looking corpse...
That's even more impressive than Tony Randall's marital record!MJ said:This afternoon, I'm taking my 94 1/2 yo father to a family wedding.
Yikes! Judging by my medical record, flu or pneumonia will be my death. It'd be interesting to see if you still feel that way about flu shots after reading The Great Influenza.ex-Jarhead said:Oh, and by the way, I've never had a "flu" shot .
We're gonna have to compare notes again in another couple decades, but my spouse says that she thinks I'm getting a head start on that. She's really glad that you guys occupy so much of my attention so that she doesn't have to...ex-Jarhead said:P.S. You're going to be a real "pain in -ss", when you're my age.
Peter said:Don't know what the percentage is, but it happened to me. My wife was diagnosed with cancer in 1984, and treatment costs topped $2MM by the time she died in 1997. The last 12 months alone were in excess of $1MM.
I got a flu shot once -- the only year that I actually got the flu. From what I've read, flu shots are about as likely to hurt as to help.MRGALT2U said:. . .Like Jarhead, I have never had
a flu shot either, and don't intend to in the future. . . .
Because my mother died in her 30s of a heart attack and my father also died of heart disease, I have had two stress tests, one last year where they put some kind of nuclear material in my veins and took pictures of my heart. Everything was just fine. The question is whether this is a waste of valuable medical resources just to give me piece of mind. My insurance paid. Would I have done it if I had to pay for it myself?
razztazz said:I do the same thing every 5 yrs/ It's called a "Thalium heart scan" or a "Cardiolite" stress test" Just had one done in July in fact. My insurance paid also. Alles klar Herr Kommissar.
The retail "street price" of this is 1400-2000 clams. If you get it only every 5 yrs it's not really that expensive even if you paid for it on your own which I budgeted for in case the insurance didn't want to.
Martha said:Because my mother died in her 30s of a heart attack and my father also died of heart disease, I have had two stress tests, one last year where they put some kind of nuclear material in my veins and took pictures of my heart. Everything was just fine. The question is whether this is a waste of valuable medical resources just to give me piece of mind. My insurance paid. Would I have done it if I had to pay for it myself?
razztazz said:The retail "street price" of this is 1400-2000 clams. If you get it only every 5 yrs it's not really that expensive even if you paid for it on your own which I budgeted for in case the insurance didn't want to.
razztazz said:Cancer risk=small. Complication/death by Colonoscopy=much greater
Martha said:Bosco, of course you got a Thallium stress test--you said chest tightness. Now you have that on your medical record.
Martha said:Did you have the C reactive protein (CRP) test to measure for inflamation?
73ss454 said:JG
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
Send over the pictures so we can check her out.