I participated in a campaign on behalf of Mom Central Consulting for Aflac. I received a promotional item as a thank you for participating.

Hopefully, you haven’t experienced the unpleasantness — to put it mildly — of a serious injury or illness. Even with health insurance, it can be downright debilitating, physically and emotionally, as well as financially. That’s why Aflac wants to help you figure out the real cost of healthcare — and, more important, help you afford it.

Several years ago, when my father developed lung cancer, he spent the last six weeks of his life in the hospital and received a few rounds of radiation and then a few doses of chemo, before he was declared a hospice patient and passed away. While my mother was still working and my father was disabled (so there wasn’t a loss of income, as there often is when a serious illness strikes), the medical bills were outrageous. We’re talking in the neighborhood of $1 million for his roughly six-week hospital stay. $1 million. That’s just the healthcare. When you factor in the other costs, like the cost of my mother eating out at least once a day because she was constantly shuttling from work to the hospital and back and forth (don’t forget the gas expense!) plus parking fees (almost daily, when she couldn’t find a parking space elsewhere), among other things…you get the real cost of healthcare.

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