Hell with universal single payer healthcare coming in, you’d just need to require current practitioners to accept the insurance as it gets phased in and people could keep their doctor they have before the roll out.
I’d love to get some of that sweet sweet affordable healthcare and not have to worry about how I’m gonna pay for it, if the specific doctor I see at the clinic takes my insurance, if they do a blood test if that person takes my insurance, etc, etc.
Last year I went to the ER for severe chest pains and numbness shooting down my arm, turns out it wasn’t anything serious, then had to deal with my insurance basically going “Well it wasn’t life threatening so here’s what’s left to pay on your bill,” (literally close to $2k and sent to me 5 months later (made using my FSA account a bitch BTW) as separate bills for every person who saw me) rather than if it was life threatening in which case they would have covered all of it except a $500 “ER fee”
God, dealing with health insurance is such a living hell. It always reminds me of that woman who got her face ripped off by a bear, and when asked what the worst part of the experience was, she replied “dealing with health insurance.” Not getting her face torn off by a bear, not the surgeries and uncertainty of getting it sewn back on, nope. Health insurance.
I am so sorry you’ve had to go through all that and that you don’t have more compassionate health insurance. I really hope that changes for you at some point and you’re able to get something better, at the very least.
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Hell with universal single payer healthcare coming in, you’d just need to require current practitioners to accept the insurance as it gets phased in and people could keep their doctor they have before the roll out.
I’d love to get some of that sweet sweet affordable healthcare and not have to worry about how I’m gonna pay for it, if the specific doctor I see at the clinic takes my insurance, if they do a blood test if that person takes my insurance, etc, etc.
Last year I went to the ER for severe chest pains and numbness shooting down my arm, turns out it wasn’t anything serious, then had to deal with my insurance basically going “Well it wasn’t life threatening so here’s what’s left to pay on your bill,” (literally close to $2k and sent to me 5 months later (made using my FSA account a bitch BTW) as separate bills for every person who saw me) rather than if it was life threatening in which case they would have covered all of it except a $500 “ER fee”
FML I hate United Heath Care.
God, dealing with health insurance is such a living hell. It always reminds me of that woman who got her face ripped off by a bear, and when asked what the worst part of the experience was, she replied “dealing with health insurance.” Not getting her face torn off by a bear, not the surgeries and uncertainty of getting it sewn back on, nope. Health insurance.
I am so sorry you’ve had to go through all that and that you don’t have more compassionate health insurance. I really hope that changes for you at some point and you’re able to get something better, at the very least.