Imagine the frustration and the feelings that one may have when receiving a $3000 dollar bill for the treatment he has suffered in Iraq war as a soldier. That's exactly happened to Army Sgt. Erik Roberts who was billed $3000 dollars for the injury treatments that he had suffered in Iraq as a U.S. soldier.
I read the story about Army Sgt. Erik Roberts in today's CNN and could not pass by. So I decided to share it partially with our readers.
According to CNN report Roberts says "I just thought it was bull ---- that I'm getting billed for being wounded in Iraq doing my job. I always put the mission first, and now that I was wounded in Iraq, they're sending me bills," he said.
"I put my life on the line and I was wounded in combat, and I came back and they're not going to take care of my medical bills?"
The Veterans' Affairs did not approve Robert's decision to go for an out of the network surgeon. However, Robert says it was either out of the network or I would lose my leg. "I thought my leg was more important than the usual bureaucratic mess," he told CNN.
"His leg was saved. The $3,000 billed to Roberts wasn't for the surgery itself. It's a portion of the bill for six weeks of daily antibiotics to prevent the infection from coming back. His private insurance plan picked up the majority of the $90,000 in costs."
Eventually after a U.S. senator got involved in the issue the Department of Veteran's Affairs decided to pay the bill.
Why should any soldier pay a single penny for the wounds that he or she has suffered while serving the homeland? This country has so much that it needs to fix, including the health care reform for soldiers and the men and women in uniform.
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