What It Feels Like To Get A Bill For Your Miscarriage

“If you’re having a mental health crisis, please hang up and call your PCM …” the robotic voice for my prior insurance trailed off, and I began to wonder whether I actually was having a mental health crisis.

Every time I’ve spoken to this insurance company, it’s left me feeling worse and more hopeless than before: Answers seem to be scarce, and the unenthusiastic voices of their “customer service” associates on the other end don’t convince me that anyone is looking very hard for those answers on my behalf.

I looked down at my half-crumpled bill again, seeing the itemized version of thousands of dollars owed for complications from a miscarriage that happened two years earlier. Complications that are being denied by health insurance.

This insurance plan is the one I’d had while my husband was still in the Army. We’d never received a bill for anything before this, thank God, but when I had to be transferred to a civilian hospital to be seen by doctors there, it got expensive very quickly.  

Source: Yahoo News