Apparently nobody seems to think it is proper to warn a patient that a procedure will cost them over nine hundred dollars after insurance pays their bit
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There is no excuse for them not to know how much everything will cost you. Everything heath care related is more complicated than in needs to be.
Your Christmas Drabble (I listen to so much Christmas music, only writing about will get it out of my head) is:
Silver Bells
Walt leaned on the balcony railing after his shift. Down below parents lined up their children to get their pictures taken with Santa. Kids walked away with candy canes. Parents walked away with relief. A choir sang about the happy bustle of the city, dressed for outside. They had to be sweating in the mall. Warm arms wrapped around Walt. Maslo. “How is Santa’s favorite elf?” “Santa has other favorites.” This year’s Santa flirted outrageously with the older mothers and grandmothers. “Well, you’re my favorite elf.” Maslo took Walt’s hand and they rode the escalator down to the bustling mall.
Why do certain politicians keep claiming that a "free market" will lead to lower healthcare costs when the system is rigged so you cannot find out what your actual out-of-pocket costs will be until months after receiving the first post-treatment bill?
Obamacare: what conservatives told us socialized medicine was like.
Yes, ask. We find it takes hours to find out, generally; we have to first get a pile of data from the doctors, and then we take it to the insurance company, which replies with a non-binding estimate of coverage.
The claim that preventative care and tests are fully covered is false. Initial screening tests are covered, not followup tests. The claim is yet another insurance industry bait-and-switch. We're out-of-pocket $400 because my wife didn't ask what followup tests (all negative) on a mammogram would cost.
That said, I will admit that the ACA is for most people a vast improvement over what we had before, but that is because we had nothing before.
For me it is that: I had nothing before and no way to get anything tilkl I qualified for Medicare (which date I am still iunsere of after searching the official sites repeatedly. It'/s a different age on every page).
A serious advantage of this is that my coverage and my card look like everybody else's. The disadvantage is that everybody is deluged with new patients and they are floundering.
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Your Christmas Drabble (I listen to so much Christmas music, only writing about will get it out of my head) is:
Silver Bells
Walt leaned on the balcony railing after his shift. Down below parents lined up their children to get their pictures taken with Santa. Kids walked away with candy canes. Parents walked away with relief.
A choir sang about the happy bustle of the city, dressed for outside. They had to be sweating in the mall.
Warm arms wrapped around Walt.
Maslo. “How is Santa’s favorite elf?”
“Santa has other favorites.” This year’s Santa flirted outrageously with the older mothers and grandmothers.
“Well, you’re my favorite elf.” Maslo took Walt’s hand and they rode the escalator down to the bustling mall.
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Yes, ask. We find it takes hours to find out, generally; we have to first get a pile of data from the doctors, and then we take it to the insurance company, which replies with a non-binding estimate of coverage.
The claim that preventative care and tests are fully covered is false. Initial screening tests are covered, not followup tests. The claim is yet another insurance industry bait-and-switch. We're out-of-pocket $400 because my wife didn't ask what followup tests (all negative) on a mammogram would cost.
That said, I will admit that the ACA is for most people a vast improvement over what we had before, but that is because we had nothing before.
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A serious advantage of this is that my coverage and my card look like everybody else's. The disadvantage is that everybody is deluged with new patients and they are floundering.
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