She Yelled At Her Parents After They Wouldn’t Pay A $450 Medical Bill For Her Sister Who Is In College, But Meanwhile Her Mom Has No Problem Spending A Lot of Money Taking Them Out To Dinner
One of the most intimidating things about getting older is having to cover your own medical bills. But if you’re a teenager still living with your parents and suffering from a condition you can’t control, you think you wouldn’t have to be responsible for paying any medical bills by yourself, right?
One young woman recently yelled at her parents after they refused to pay a $450 medical bill for her younger sister, who is a teenage college student with intense sciatica.
She’s 23, and her sister is a 19-year-old rising college sophomore. Her sister has sciatica which has, unfortunately, only gotten worse over time.
Anytime she’s visited her sister over the last year, she’s been visibly in pain, breaking her heart.
Their parents are divorced, and her sister has been living with her mom while she’s home from school for the summer.
“A few months ago, after doing a few other things for her sciatica that did not help, she decided to do this new experimental treatment [and] surgery to try to help the pain,” she explained.
“She is on my mom’s insurance, which isn’t the best.”
Their mom’s insurance is covering the cost of the treatment and surgery, but her sister has racked up $450 in co-pays and consultation fees.
Her sister is a full-time student working a service job, so she doesn’t have $450 of her own. Thus, she began a horrible journey of trying to get money from her parents.
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Any time her sister would ask one of their parents for the $450, they’d say no and tell her to ask the other parent.
This continued until their parents finally told her sister she’d have to pay the bill on her own, suggesting she apply for a credit card.
“I sort of understand my mom’s perspective because she doesn’t make a ton of money, but also, I know that she definitely has $450 to spare,” she said.
“Last week, she took me and all of my siblings out to a steakhouse, and the bill was $250, and she had no problem paying that.”
She was also shocked that her dad refused to help her sister, considering two months ago, he spent thousands of dollars to get a full set of veneers.
Her dad also makes much more money than her mom, so it’s baffling why he won’t pay her sister’s bill.
The night her sister called her crying, telling her everything that had happened, she got so angry that she confronted her parents.
She called her mom and dad and yelled at them, telling them they were being selfish, pathetic hypocrites.
She also told her parents they shouldn’t be surprised if they find themselves abandoned as they get older because she and her sister won’t take care of them.
“I was admittedly name-calling and being very harsh,” she remembered.
“Both of them always talk about how horrible it is that my sister is always in pain and how they feel so bad for her. But when it comes down to it, neither of them are willing to spare anything to help her.”
Did she go too far by yelling at her parents, or was she doing the right thing by her sister?
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