I just got my major hospital bill for the 9 day stay I had ending on Halloween of this year. It is around $1,350.00 and then there is another bill for about $150.00 for the psychiatrist who saw me in the Hospital. I am already paying 2 hospital bills for previous hospital stays. Now there will be more pressure to pay pay pay. I don't honestly know if I can cover all this AND my therapy, which has a $16.00 copay every week, as well as $10 to get me there on public transit. (No therapists in the town where I live).

I don't have an "advantage" plan. I use quotes, because I don't see any advantage there really, between such a plan and original Medicare, which is what I have. However, I do not know. Maybe my hospital bills would have been less? I kind of doubt it. Insurance companies are in business to make money, not save ME money!

I know I have to make a new budget. I will wait and see what the new psychiatrist's office visits cost first. Oh, and they want me to pay my bill by the 23rd of this month? Really?? I never pay a medical bill in the same month that I receive it. I pay them the next month. That is always how I do it. And if I cannot pay it all, I stretch it out over several months. I wonder what they will think about that?