you got off cheap, between mri's, x-rays, 3 surgeries, physical therapy, medications, and the hospital stays my ruined knee cost my insurance company upwards of $200K, they sent me dupes of all the invoices just to make sure i knew who to thank for being able to walk without a zimmerframe, and i did know, i thanked my doctors. the insurance company was pushing for a knee replacement but my doc told them to eat dicks and fixed my knee right. i got an extra 20 years on it before it became too stiff to work in the feilds. now im considering going on disability rather than keep working for peanuts in a shitty shop in town. they keep threatening to fire me because i cant climb ladders no more.
needless to say theres not an insurance company in the land who will cover me for anything ever again. the affordable care act is bullshit. we will get cuban style medicine from government supplied doctors when the system breaks down as it is intended to do. i dont care what michael moore says cuban health care is not superior to ours, its not even preferrable, even if it is "free"