# The most insane health insurance system in the world is in the US

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**Created:** [February 12, 2023, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-insane-health-insurance-system-in-the-world-is-in-the-us/979641 "2023-02-12T00:30:53Z")\
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**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\
**Post date:** [March 3, 2023, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-most-insane-health-insurance-system-in-the-world-is-in-the-us/979641/41 "2023-03-03T18:21:34Z")

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> [@Debt collection letter received after 32 years](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/debt-collection-letter-received-after-32-years/980433/18):
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> In semi-related news involving my deceased first wife. She died in late 2021. About 6 months later in early 2022 I started receiving monthly bills addressed to her from the hospital / clinic about an unpaid $8K bill from early 2019. So the charges were 2-1/2 years old when she died, and 3 years old when I got the first bill. It appears that for some reason the medical insurer rejected one day of her ongoing chemo treatment. But they’d paid for the prior week(s) and subsequent week(s) promptl…

I’m not much upset about this whole saga, but I can imagine lots of other people in a similar spot would be pretty upset and rightly so.

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