Heart Disease by Clip Art
Living with heart disease can cost $1 million and bankrupt a family if you don’t have health insurance. That is what I found when I worked on a story about living with heart disease for USA Today’s Heart & Stroke Magazine.
Here’s an excerpt:
“Bruce Fichtner had just returned from vacation and was putting dirty clothes into the washing machine in April 2010, when he began to feel tightness in his chest and a shortness of breath. His face turned gray and he started sweating. His wife, Patty, called ambulance. At the hospital, near his home in Schenectady, N.Y., the 59-year-old learned that the left main artery feeding his heart was 90 percent blocked. Within days, he had surgery to perform a triple bypass to prevent a heart attack. The bill came to $130,000.”
See my story here. Heart Disease Costs
