She is grateful her health insurance will pay most of the $42,096 bill, but she still has many sleepless nights thinking about her debts. The 41-year-old is being treated by specialists at the Mount Sinai Post Covid Care Center in New York City. Gerver suspects a government marketplace health insurance plan would cost less than Cobra, but she doesn’t know if the care she needs for long Covid would be covered. She still owes hospitals thousands of dollars from the 18 years she didn’t have health insurance. Catalina Morales, 29, Minnesota: $5,000Out-of-pocket costs: $5,000Catalina Morales has spent about $5,000 on Covid care, even though she never had it.

Source: The Guardian February 12, 2021 09:56 UTC