Imagine having a medical bill that could be paid by an amount of money that fits in a jar.
You can cram a lot of $100 bills into a jar.
Yeah I remember watching this and wonder how a cast could cost money.
It’s actually farcical that a First World country has this, like if you bought a house in a nice neighbourhood but find out upon moving in that it doesn’t have plumbing; because you assumed that’s just standard.
I grew up out in the sticks. We had some city-slickers move into the house down the road (we would have been neighbors, but there was a field between us). After a few days, they called my dad for help with a plumbing issue. They didn’t have any water. They had run out of water.
Our area didn’t have municipal water lines, so every house had big tanks buried nearby, and had to get water delivered by truck.
They didn’t realize that when they bought the house
Wow, did they assume there was a well?
Water tanks sound like a huge pain and tough to keep sanitary.
I have pretty good insurance. I make pretty good money. But for the fucking life of me I can’t find a doctor that takes my insurance and is accepting new patients.
So this rash on my hand is getting Vaseline until it starts turning black and then I’m taking a cleaver to it.
this was gran’s trick: mix some otc cortisone and lotrimin creams together about 1:1, then rub them on the rash. didn’t matter what rash. apply once a day, then keep the area dry the rest of the day for an entire week. if this hasn’t fixed it it’s time to go to the MD. this is not medical advice.
Even if you did, 90% chance they’d charge you a few hundred bucks just to tell you to put Vaseline on it. 10% chance it turns black and they get to charge you big money to save you the trouble of cleavering it.
… Fuck insurance.
I’m pretty sure it’s a flare of up dishydeotic eczema. I had one on the same fingers about 15 years ago but way worse.
I know what they’d do is prescribe me some special ointment and it would go away in a week or so and cost less than $50 between the copay and the script.
But the goddamn fucking hoops they make you jump through just to get a doctor to say “yep, that’s what you think, I’ll send a script” is infuriating.
Which lets me know they’re doing it on purpose to cut costs by getting people to avoid getting care even if they can.
If you know the name of that ointment then I’m sure you can find it on a website somewhere.
I’m lucky, I don’t have to pay for doctors or prescriptions. But if I did then I’d deffo buy ointment off the net rather than wait and wait and wait.
If it’s available by prescription I don’t think it’s available online. But I might be able to find something similar at Tractor Supply. Their apple-flavored antibiotics work and taste great.
If you are not bothered about the legality then most things are found online if you go to the correct places…
The plot of the Lilo & Stitch Live action is that the government will take Lilo away in exchange of taking care of the medical bills
