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OwnedByCats

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7. Same in the UK
Sun Jan 26, 2014, 04:29 PM
Jan 2014

My husband had Hodgkin's Lymphoma twice. Tests, hospital visits, chemo, semen storage (in case of infertility), stem cell transplant, check ups with hematologist after, medication - outside of our NHS contribution which is really affordable, it cost us nothing.

In the US, we would have gone bankrupt as the bills would have gone well into six figures unless we had some really good insurance and at that time, we wouldn't have. It's inexcusable that the US doesn't do what Canada and the UK do. Completely horrible.

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