This isn't so funny. I have a letter from Blue Cross Blue Shield specifically approving the ho e provider we used from back when this all started. I just got a statement from them that says of the $2000+ ho e bill they are paying $35. WTF???? I am about to go to war with those suckers. She probably saved those bloodsuckers $50,000 by choosing not to do more radiation/chemo once it went to her brain. Damn.
Wow what assholes. $2000 is a drop in the bucket of what they'd be paying had she opted for full care, as you said. You should bill them for the hours of round the clock nursing care you provided.
BCBS is the same racket that billed my sister-in-law for an ambulance ride following her accident, because she could have driven herself to the hospital. I almost died laughing when I heard her yell at them over the phone "Drive MYSELF?? My left leg was laying in the street! I drive a ing standard!!"
CC, just saw the thread. Sorry about your loss...glad your sis had you in those last days!
First they had me fax them a copy of the will naming me as executor. Then they told me they got "so many faxes" that they wouldn't be able to find it and "get it in the system" for 24-48 hours and to call back then after they were authorized to talk to me. I went ahead and gave them all the details I was calling about and suggested they get it fixed before I called back because I WOULD SO SUE THEIR ASS if they didn't.
Thanks Chopper...we had some good times.
Awesome.
Sorry about your loss CC...
Often those bills aren't really "bills" you have to pay.
What is billed to BC/BS is what the ho e WANTS to charge BC/BS. Often what is ultimately paid is MUCH less.
There also may be deductibles and copays in her policy that you probably don't know about.
That would be the ethical thing.
Realistically, the credit card companies themselves share a very large portion of the responsibility for their losses.
They could have simply stopped lending her money, as that would have been the fairly responsible thing to do to protect their business interests.
Of course that would have initiated a new line of ethical conundrum, i.e. denying a way for a dying person to pay needed bills.
Kind of a damned if you do, and damned if you don't situation for them, not that I feel an ounce of pity for any credit card issuer.
I agree RandomGuy, credit card companies should be more responsible also. To my understanding she called and tried to work it out with them? I mean did they assume she won't be able to pay it off otherwise, so another person would have to pay it off for her? That's what it seems to me.
Also I just think everyone needs to learn to live within your means. That's ultimate responsiblity.
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