Moderately Confused by Jeff Stahler for July 03, 2019

We may have to amend your symptoms.

Never mind, they only cover the rare diseases.

Just lost a battle over eyedrops. Guess who gets to supply the arbitrator.

It’s not covered, so get over it!

The insurance companies tell doctors how to practice medicine.

Before my knee replacement, I was getting shots. The insurance company will pay for the medication my doctor wanted to use only if he used cortisone first and it didn’t work. Cortisone didn’t work, but I had to suffer another month to prove it.

The new medication worked so good that I did not need it for another 24 months. But wait! Since it was more than a year since I used it, the insurance company insisted that we use cortisone (kickback?) first even though it proved to be ineffective.

So I played the game: I got a shot of the new medication every year whether I needed it or not. All in the name of reducing the cost of medicine.

Thank goodness I went on Social Security and Medicare before I was diagnosed. I wouldn’t have been able to afford me.

Then check the life insurance policy, then the will.

They check your insurance so they know if they can double the price of treatment.

“Hmmm… Cheasles, Wumps, Hickey Pox….. no plague. Oh, well.”

The GOP uses the argument that Medicare for all will keep you from seeing “your Doctor”. My wife managed an orthopedic practice several years ago. A well known surgeon was a transplant from a major city, who refused to take Medicare ( in a retirement heavy area). After a couple of months of very few patients, he asked her if she knew why? She repeated, as he ignored her comments previously, that there were a lot of calls coming in – but most were older people on – Medicare. The light bulb finally lit up. Gradually phased in, with higher payments for service, with the govt supporting med students with favorable loans ( like the old National Defense Student loans) and other accommodations to reality would give us a real health care system. Across the country, not just in wealthy and populated areas. Anyone who has not had to deal with the arrogance and stupidity of private insurance needs to ask themselves – “Do I really want accountants, lawyers, and incredibly greedy management types telling me what medical treatment I need?” Remember the Aetna CEO that got a $40Million BONUS.

Must be a third world sh!thole without national health/single payer.

Be careful about reading about health on the internet. you may die of a misprint.