“One of the worst parts about this for me was that while I was dealing with trying to get my life back together from that kind of injury, I thought I was also going to go bankrupt as well.”
I have seen the same with people I knew who had cancer. They are already super sick but are then in addition expected to navigate this insane system or accept to pay tens and hundreds thousands of dollars. All this while they can barely function at all.
There is a whole niche industry in cancer care navigation. Perhaps that shouldn't be necessary in the sense of working around defects in a broken system but those care navigators can help a lot.
I have seen the same with people I knew who had cancer. They are already super sick but are then in addition expected to navigate this insane system or accept to pay tens and hundreds thousands of dollars. All this while they can barely function at all.