Ask HN: Which charities do you donate to?

Re:Ask HN: Which charities do you donate to? by DoreenMichele on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @08:24PM (#21698768)

I'm surprised to hear that.

Years ago, I speculated on a CF list that the CFF must have covered some of my medical bills because I was never charged a copay at UC-Davis Medical Center in Sacramento. But I was told the CFF didn't do stuff like that.

I was deathly ill at the time that I was diagnosed and I showed up at my doctor's office and they had big signs saying they would not treat you if you owed them money, so I asked what I owed because I had never paid them a dime and they looked me up on the computer and said I didn't owe them anything.

I shrugged and didn't really think about it. I was fighting for my life and on a lot of drugs. I didn't have the wherewithal to be overly curious or try to find out what was going on there.

So I just assumed military benefits plus, oh, some charity or other.

Anyway, glad that worked out for you.

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Re:Ask HN: Which charities do you donate to? by benzini on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @08:36PM (#21698848)

I was told that they covered the cost for all patients at the center who were still classified as unknown. This was several years after the first test.

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Re:Ask HN: Which charities do you donate to? by DoreenMichele on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @08:47PM (#21698898)

Really?

They never identified my alleles. I had three sweat chlorides and two or three blood tests. My insurance denied my doctor's request for a more comprehensive -- so more expensive -- test at Stanford.

Thanks for letting me know.

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