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<p>At one point? If you call 4 years a “point” on top of school full time 
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<p>Romani, I edited it because I personally don’t find the “Canada’s lousy” argument informative and didn’t want to strike a match. The info was from a CBC report. </p>
<p>Roman, you were going to school and didn’t have insurance? Doesn’t the school offer a student insurance policy?</p>
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<p>I figured it was something along those lines, which is why I edited as well 
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<p>Okay, 3 jobs plus full-time school and a gallbladder in serious need of removal without insurance. Come on people.</p>
<p>Are you accusing Rom of lying, Flossy? That would be surprising, because Rom has been on CC for a long time, and those of us who are her friends have been following her story as it happened. So we believe her.</p>
<p>I’d have to be a heck of a liar to keep up my story for so long. You are certainly welcomed to go back and look at my threads. I had an extremely long one about my gallbladder removal (including my inability to pay) and plenty that talked about working multiple jobs (ok, not threads, but posts). </p>
<p>I mean… I really did all those years of posts and threads JUST to lead up to this moment where I could pull one over on you, Flossy 
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<p>Nope. I’m vetting. Why didn’t you have school insurance? My neighbor had gallbladder issues and basically disappeared for a month. Mostly, she was in bed. So, three jobs plus full time school and a six month wait seems difficult.</p>
<p>Oh come on Flossy, have the courage to own up to your own words. You accused her of lying.</p>
<p>Oh, and you just did it again in #15227.</p>
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<p>Yeah, as far as I could determine, reading the posts in real time, it WAS difficult. In fact, it sounded pretty awful to me.</p>
<p>It was awful. I remember that episode quite vividly; in fact, that was when I first got to know her. It’s probably right here in CC, Flossy, if you’d like to check it out. </p>
<p>When I had my surgery I did have insurance- I had gotten it in like June of that year and my surgery was in August. I wasn’t insured before that because I couldn’t afford my school’s plan. The cost to cover a year was around 2k.
And, since it was August and I was transitioning from undergrad to grad, I wouldn’t have been covered by either plan. In fact, I talked about in my old thread hoping I could wait a few more weeks so that I could at least use my grad school’s hospital free of charge. </p>
<p>I remember that. I think a bunch of us were pushing you to go to the doctor or something, and you couldn’t because of the insurance situation. Oh no, that must be wrong. There were no insurance problems until ACA came along.</p>
<p>“When I had my surgery I did have insurance.” </p>
<p>Oh, thanks. How did that happen with a pre-existing condition?</p>
<p>LasMa, I have no idea what you are reading. I questioned. I did not accuse. And, no-one has ever said there were no problems before ACA. This is like communicating with people in some weird alternate universe.</p>
<p>Most undergraduate schools require students to have school insurance or your own policy. Your school was different? In Ca before Obamacare, it cost a 21-year-old kid around a $100 a month. How were you able to get your own policy in June since you had a preexisting condition (gall bladder disease)?</p>
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<p>… is not a question. It is scoffing disbelief. In other words, calling her a liar.</p>
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<p>And your solution was?</p>
<p>The gallstones were not considered a pre-existing condition because I hadn’t been diagnosed with them yet. I ignored the pain because I didn’t have insurance, hence, no diagnosis. Had I had insurance, I would’ve gone the first time that everyone yelled at me on CC (lovingly, of course). </p>
<p>I got a very basic BCBS plan that did not exclude me for pre-existing conditions. </p>
<p>As I remember, we were yelling at you anyway. I remember we were trying to figure out what was going on, and wasn’t their some kind of special diet you were trying?</p>
<p>Yes, you were- and I appreciate it because I probably would’ve put it off even longer and starting grad school would’ve been terrible. </p>
<p>I think that I had, by that time, just gotten rid of all of my trigger foods (dairy, fat, etc). It was terrible. I couldn’t have pizza. PIZZA! </p>
<p>Did anyone guess gall bladder?</p>