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Insured Amputee Still Faces Liens against Home

"Last year, I was involved in a high-impact motorcycle accident," recounts Tom Wenning of Portland, Oregon. "I was life-flighted to the local trauma hospital and spent two weeks in ICU, three weeks in the trauma recovery and acute-care unit, and five weeks in a rehabilitation hospital."

"I now have an amputated left leg and a 'frozen' left shoulder. I was released from the rehabilitation hospital in July of last year. But during the preceding May and June of that year, those two hospitals, various surgeons, radiologists, and anesthesiologists placed 21 liens against my and my wife's home, totaling $531,000. All these liens were placed on my home before I was released from the hospital and before I'd even seen a bill." 

"My 15-month-old son Gavin was recently denied by Pacific Source insurance in Oregon due to the fact that he has recently gotten ear tubes – of all things," Nixie Krusee of Portland, Ore., writes.

"He has been fighting ear infections for the past eight months and by doctor's recommendations he had ear tubes placed in both ears. His ears are now fine, no more endless up-all-nighters, chronic pain, and antibiotics every three weeks. Everything has completely cleared up – except he was denied health insurance now because of his tubes. I thought this procedure was very common?