Health insurance companies, along with their policies and premiums, are undoubtedly one of the banes of every American’s existence. On top of receiving hospital bills that’ll cost you a kidney, insurance expenses are also overly expensive. Yet, oftentimes, said insurance can’t even properly cover medical fees. That said, one man who went to a Texas hospital for a very critical surgery had been denied by his insurance company to pay for the procedure. The main issue is that he owes the hospital over $1.5 million.
Even the cosmetic treatments and uplifts that most average celebrities get don’t cost that much. Unbelievable as it all is, the reason this Texas surgery cost such a fortune was that it was a permanent occipital supraorbital stimulator implant for the patient’s occipital neuralgia. For those not in the know, occipital neuralgia is a disorder that causes the nerves at the back of the head to become inflamed, causing a world of pain and discomfort.
The Texas Man Blames the American Healthcare System for This Wild Debt
“Severe pain every day, all day for 6 years, no medications or other therapy helped. So I opted for the surgery. Now I’m regretting it,” the man remarked, posting his situation to r/mildlyinfuriating. On one hand, “If I didn’t get it, I would have become permanently disabled,” he explained. On the other hand, this surgery saved him from another half-decade or longer of suffering, but now he’s millions in debt. “I am in literal shock at America’s health care system. Like what would you do in this situation?” he exclaimed.
Many people agreed that being “extorted for $1,539,758” is well beyond “mildly infuriating.” Plenty of commenters even recommended that OP just ignore the bill since it’s impossible for him to pay. “I work at Walmart… I don’t know how they expect me to pay this. I’m on a $100 a month payment plan because that’s all I can afford,” he sighed. As to why the insurance refused to cover anything, he claimed that “they classified it as an ‘experimental surgery.’”
Experimental or not, it’s still absolutely ridiculous that any one person, especially an average worker in retail, could ever be billed something even remotely close to a million dollars, let alone $1.5M.
