Originally Posted At: Coalition Against HMO & Insurance Abuse
Last winter I was doing some work around my apartment and accidentally drank some paint thinner that I thought was water. I put the paint thinner in a drinking glass because it made it easier to clean the brushes. Anyway long story story short I must have been dizzy and confused from the fumes and was thirtsy. I ACCIDENTALLY drank the paint thinner. Right away, I knew something wasn’t right.
My roommate rushed me to the emergency room and dropped me off because she had to go to work. I awoke 3 hours later in a pool of my own vomit in a hallway of the hospital. They gave me a charcoal treatment and I stayed there for a day and half for observation.
Now BC not only has refused to pay for the visit ($3800), they dropped me from my ppo plan on the grounds that I had a substance abuse problem that I did not disclose. They accused me of drinking the paint thinner on purpose to get high or something.
I feel like I am being railroaded down a railroad that is going into the desert of financial and emotional ruin..and you know what? I’m thirty in this desert, and the only thing to drink is paint thinner…paint thinner served by BC.
Signed,
Thirsty and Broke.
Charleston, Wv.
