Abandoned AmericaMar 20, 2023

When my wife signed us up for health care through the state she was off by one day on my birthday. For the last year my life has been an absolute nightmare of people saying they fixed it but (surprise!) they didn't, getting insurance reimbursements & referrals bounced bc of the wrong date, having to spend hours on the phone trying to get it corrected so I'm not billed full amt at every single provider (surprise! It's never fixed!)

US health care makes Kafka's bureaucracies look simple & easy

Show threadAbandoned AmericaMar 20, 2023
I'm arguably in control of my intellectual faculties but I still am at my wits end with it. I cannot imagine this level of overall inability to fix something as simple as a date off by one day, baked into a byzantine network of garbage medical records/billing software, being any easier to manage if someone is severely injured, ill, or impaired. And I suspect that's the point. Make getting the insurance you paid for so time consuming & impossible that you just give up & eat the debt yourself
Show threadbrennen
@AbandonedAmerica a couple of times now i've had to navigate the vagaries of US medical billing in the aftermath of an event which caused me some months of lingering cognitive impairment. the mind boggles at the sheer villainy and incompetence baked, in equal measure, into a system that has to be dealt with by people experiencing the worst parts of their lives. just a complete disaster, makes me want to light things on fire.
Mar 20, 2023 at 5:36pmWeb
Show threadAbandoned AmericaMar 20, 2023
@brennen well said. And that's exactly it: incompetence, villainy, and apathy. It does inspire a very special sort of rage