Health Care Reform

My wife gave birth to our second child in May.  We are just now receiving the Explanation Of Benefits from Anthem on the charges for the delivery and the four day hospital stay.  Even though I own a medical billing company and see medical charges on a regular basis, I was still amazed that Anthem was charged $33,000 for everything.  I am very thankful that we have health care coverage that covered a vast majority of this amount, leaving us only a small co-insurance amount to pay.

As I looked over the Explanation Of Benefits, I continued to try and wrap my mind around $33,000.  It made me wonder how those without any form of health care coverage survive.  I can only imagine the type of financial burden this puts on them.  I hope I am never faced without health insurance.

Unless you have lived under a rock the past 18-24 months you have heard about the health care reform President Obama has put into motion.  Now I am not taking any political stance with this blog post.  I am not sure that what Mr. Obama is proposing is the the answer or not.  I do know it's a start.  I know there is still a lot more work that needs to be done with health care.  All I can do is urge everyone to get involved and start communicating with your elected officials and urge them to continue working on a solution to the health care fiasco.