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 threadBrandonMar 20, 2023

@AbandonedAmerica received a 3k bill for my wife after insurance denied it. She looked at it and said “I bet they accidentally submitted it to the dental department listed on the same card”. Sure enough she was right and I almost paid 3k that insurance was responsible for.

She called and the response was “lol oops we’ll try again”. How is that acceptable? If she wasn’t there and recognized the billing codes I’d have paid the thing.

Show threadAbandoned America
@Brandon yuuuup. Funny how the mistakes are always in their favor too.
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