| Blue Cross Blue Shield Health Insurance is one of the | | | | emergency room visit is incredibly expensive, and so I |
| oldest, most established health insurance companies in | | | | have to make payments on this debt that I still owe. |
| the country. This company has been providing health | | | | At the time, I felt I could not avoid going to the hospital. I |
| insurance to generations of Americans and its | | | | had a bad case of strep throat and If I was not |
| customer base grows more and more each year. I am | | | | treated with antibiotics, I would not be able to go to |
| secure in the knowledge that my family and their | | | | work. As a bartender, not going to work meant not |
| health is protected since I have a Blue Cross Blue | | | | getting paid. Even though I knew the visit would be |
| Shield Health Insurance policy. | | | | very expensive, I had no choice but to go to the |
| I wish I could say this was always true. For a number | | | | hospital and then try to work out a payment plan for |
| of years I worked as a bartender and had no | | | | the visit. |
| insurance coverage whatsoever. I was a nervous | | | | I was in a cubicle for a total of ten minutes, and the |
| wreck that any accident or fall would put me in | | | | visit cost me $200. That worked out to $10 per minute. |
| tremendous debt because I had no way to pay any | | | | Since I do not make $60 an hour, I knew I could not |
| hospital bills. Without my Blue Cross Blue Shield | | | | afford to do that again. That experience really made |
| protection, I found myself not going to the doctor's, no | | | | me realize that I literally could not afford to be without |
| matter how sick I was because I could not afford the | | | | Blue Cross Blue Shield Health Insurance. |
| price of a visit. | | | | To add insult to injury, besides charging me for the |
| On one occasion, I hurt my ankle tripping over | | | | room, the hospital charged me for every little thing |
| something in the dark. Even though it hurt a lot, I went | | | | involved in the visit, including the antibiotics, of course, |
| home on it and saw that it was twisted and badly | | | | but also for such items as the gloves the doctor wore |
| sprained. But there was no way I could go to the | | | | when he examined me. Spending five dollars for one |
| hospital without Blue Cross Blue Shield health insurance. | | | | pair of latex gloves made me determine to start |
| I had already learned that lesson the hard way. The | | | | looking for a Blue Cross Blue Shield Insurance Plan that |
| last time I injured myself and went to the emergency | | | | I could afford. I have never regretted that decision. |
| room, I incurred an incredible debt. The cost of an | | | | |