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Fri, July 25, 2008 - 10:58 AM
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Fri, July 25, 2008 - 11:33 AM
I just went several rounds on the phone with my insurance company about my latest gynie exam. It's supposed to be $25 under Preventative Care, but I'm being charged $59 for the Pap smear. How can a Gyni exam not include a Pap smear? Now I'm wondering what will happen with the mammography. Again, it's supposed to be $25 under Preventative Care. But are they going to charge me another $xxx for processing the imaging? >:-[
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Fri, July 25, 2008 - 2:00 PM
I'm also reminded of the incident I read about concerning a woman in Oregon. Medicaid (not private insurance even) denied her having a needed medication to treat her cancer. They stated that they do not cover prolongation of life. In the same letter, though, they also had the nerve to remind her that they would always cover physician assisted suicide if she chose to kill herself. (The company manufacturing the medication responded by giving it to her for free... I guess they were incensed as well.)
By comparison, a friend of mine was travelling in Britain, when she experienced a major seizure resulting from a congenital defect in her brain, and required immediate surgery. Though she is American and thereby not a UK citizen, none the less *everything* was covered under the UK public health system -- it cost her *nothing.* And she said the care was excellent. It is sad. We are in a country here in the US with possibly the most sophisticated health care infrastructure and expertise in the world -- and yet, the majority of Americans can't even have it! We are also in the industrial/post-industrial country which does not provide universal health care to its citizens. Many of us don't even have insurance of any kind, making too much money for medicaid, but too little to pay for private insurance. This s**t's gotta change. |
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Fri, July 25, 2008 - 11:37 PM
we live in a 3rd world country
when studying sociology 15 years ago, many parts of USA were considered 3rd world (infant mortality rates, health care access, etc. etc.)
Nothing is better now, actually much worse. |
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Sun, July 27, 2008 - 7:26 PM
thoughts on health care...
Health Freedom Watch: Single-Payer Insurance Debate
Thu, July 24, 2008 - 5:45 PM Health Freedom Watch (Email newsletter published by the Institute for Health Freedom) July 2008 people.tribe.net/phoenix_f...a0504aec27 Thu, July 24, 2008 - 5:45 PM Tribute to the man who revolutionized Health Care coverage in Massachusetts ...and whose mission it is to make this plan national in his lifetime. people.tribe.net/phoenix_f...dd0ae5b4c9 Tue, May 20, 2008 - 2:25 PM Now I heard the other day for Blue Cross Blue Shield that my insurance form my former employer was retroactively canceled back to April 1st ( I had paid my share through March, though laid off in February. Since having health insurance in Massachusetts is now MANDATORY, under my current unemployment status, I am eligible for free coverage by the State, until I am working again, then my employer (unless a small employer) is obligated to offer me a plan. The problem is, I never got the COBRA notification from my former employer, as required by law. (I never got my accrued vacation pay required by law in Massachusetts, either, but the Attorney General will set them straight on that). But since I was still covered under my old Blue Cross Blue Shield plan ( I checked in late June and I was still covered), I have been unable to apply for the free coverage by the state. Now I have to get legal help with that so I don't get FINED for not having insurance, when, in fact, I did, but it was retroactively canceled. Bureaucracy at it's finest! I feel like I'm in a Laurel & Hardy Catch-22. "A Fine Mess". Thank the Gods I am in excellent health! Must be all that Cabernet... :-) |
