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by sgt 5680 days ago
USD 6000 + 2000? I don't want to seem insensitive, but a guy with Crunch's talent should easily be able to make the payments. He could take it across several years if he wanted to.

(Or he should have just gotten medical insurance in the first place, although I've heard some nasty things about private health insurance in America.)
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Mark_B 5679 days ago
Agreed. I mean, according to his Wikipedia article, he was the CTO of En2go a company "that delivers music, video and other digital content to desktops."

Most definitely shenanigans of some kind are going on here...

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eli 5680 days ago
He almost certainly does have insurance. A "Co-pay" is the small amount of the medical procedure cost that the insurance company bills to you.
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faboo 5679 days ago
The co-pay is the portion the insured pays. It isn't always small. It isn't even always a small percentage. A procedure my wife recently had, the co-pay was about half the total cost.

Co-pays depend the insurance company, the plan, the health care provider, and the procedure.

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jdcrunchman 5678 days ago
the co-pay I wind up paying is 20% of the total cost in medical care including hospitalization. The cost of my surgery last December was more than $175,000 if I had to pay it myself. The operation like an open surgery operation, in my neck, is going to run around $100,000. Co-pay pays 80% of that, which leads me to pay $2000.

However, there are other charges that I'm responsible for paying for, I do want to go into those, but there are many.

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