'They charged me over $4,000 (and I have health insurance!) just for the ambulance ride! It shouldn’t be like this.'
Photo: Darwin Brandis/Getty Images/iStockphoto For all but the luckiest Americans, there will come a time when you realize that the health-care system as it stands — the most expensive in the world — isn’t working the way we were told it would, or the way we may have expected it to, when we were young.
“I explained that I went on vacation and pushed to go to to that wedding because my doctors told me to. That was the entire point of me getting help anyway, to be able to do those things again, and part of that process is forcing yourself to do things. And most important, you cannot see signs of an invisible illness. It’s invisible. You can’t look at some pictures or some tweets and tell how someone with a mood disorder is doing, where they are in their recovery.
“I sort of cracked after 48 hours of no sleep, and I said, ‘I’m going to take her, I’m going to sit in the waiting room, and if she starts to get violent, I assume someone will care. And if she has a seizure, I assume someone will help her.’ Then, magically, there was a space available for her. She was treated horrifically — the same patient, the same problem — maybe six weeks apart, because the issue was psychiatric.
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