An eighteen-year-old DUI should have meant a short hospital stay three to seven days, tops. But with private PPO insurance, Gabbi became a goldmine. What should have been treatment turned into fifty long days of confinement, no therapy, no plan, and no way out. In this episode, Kelly peels back the layers of Gabbi’s story from a childhood shaped by neglect and hypervigilance, to the moment the system turned her pain into profit. Through raw storytelling and hard science, Billable Days reveals how trauma rewires the brain, and how an industry built on “care” is cashing in on the people it’s supposed to help.
