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Mudassir Ali
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complain that my snoring was keeping him awake at night. He described it as the sound of a woodchuck being thrown into a wood chipper. Since he is fond of telling tall tales and exaggeration, I didn’t take this too seriously. We were on a long flight with a 4 hour layover. So we wound up in an airport lounge and since I’m always nervous the night before a trip, I fell asleep. I suddenly woke up from deep unconsciousness, raised my head, and every person in the lounge was staring at me. “Was I snoring?”, I asked. Thirty people nodded in unison. My husband is laughing hysterically next to me.
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Wow, over 3 K up votes. This is far and away my most popular answer. Just proves I was right in thinking this was a pretty funny story. By the way, thanks for all the concerned comments. Having finally found a sleep center that would accept my insurance (don’t get me started on how crap US healthcare is) I’ll be being checked out in December.
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Update -Dec.5th. Three weeks ago, 2 months after making the appointment, the sleep center where I was to get the sleep study that I need to qualify to get a C-Pap machine called me up to tell me they don’t take my insurance. After playing phone tag for three weeks with the sleep specialist’s nurse, she informed me that none of the clinics the Doctor is associated with will take my insurance (!) so I will need to find another specialist if I can’t pay for the whole cost of the study myself. So after the expense of my time, gas money, and payment to the specialist, not to mention untold aggravation, I’m back to where I was in June. There is a clinic 20 minutes from my home that does this work, but I’ve been driving hours away to have insurance coverage.
Now I need to find a Dr who will probably be 2 or more hours drive away, or maybe I’ll need to go out of State!
Anybody who honestly believes that American healthcare is the best in the world, is either rich, unusually healthy, very young, still living in the 60’s, ignorant, or delusional and uncaring of the problems of others. I’ve lived in Canada, the UK and Sweden and I never had such aggravation. I went to a local Dr and whatever tests or referrals she made were never canceled or unexpectedly billed to me. I NEVER waited six months and wound up with nothing but bills, aggravation, depression and despair.
This election year, I am a single issue voter, and that issue is Single Payer Healthcare. Unless you are really rich, immortal, have no friends or relatives and own a magical talisman against malice and major accidents, you should do the same.