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Thursday, November 20, 2014

Canadian Couple Goes on Hawaiian Vacation and Gets Slapped with $1 Million Hospital Bill!!!!

Wow! This is really outrageous but when you get all of the details, you will totally understand why the bill is correct. A Saskatchewan, Canada couple goes on vacation in Hawaii, in Aug 2014 and owes almost $1 million in hospital bills after she gave birth in the United States. At the time of the vacation, the mom, Jennifer Huculak was just 6 months pregnant but while on vacation, her water broke. So she was airlifted from Maui to a hospital in Honolulu where she gave birth to her daughter, Reece, prematurely. Reece ended up staying in the neonatal unit for 2 months and the couple was not allowed to take their daughter and return back to Canada so they rented an apt and a rental car spending $30,000.00 on them. And then when they were finally able to leave the hospital with their daughter, came the whopping hospital bill of $950,000.00 USD. The couple has Saskatchewan Blue Cross for health insurance, but unfortunately the insurance company believes that she had a pre-existing condition and denied the claim. Therefore, the couple is on the hook for the entire bill. WOW!!! Most expensive birth ever, eh? hahahaha The pre-existing condition was labeled as such because Jennifer supposedly had a high risk pregnancy due to a bladder infection. But Jennifer denies that and says no doctor ever told her that and the bladder infection was cured with antibiotics. The couple is fighting with the insurance company. I think they should get an attorney and sue them. In the article, one of the experts suggests that if they booked the trip with a credit card, they should check and see if there was medical coverage that went along with that booking. According to the expert, if you use a credit card to book a vacation, most credit cards offer medical coverage as a bonus protection and that also includes airlifting. That would be great and would definitely help the couple out. They have received many donations from companies wishing to help them out but they are not accepting donations from individuals. Hey, if anyone wants to give me money, individual or groups or companies, I'll gladly accept it. hahahaha I wish the happy family good luck. And I hope it all works out for them.

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