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 threadHasufinMar 20, 2023
@AbandonedAmerica Allow me to remove all doubt - it is DEFINITELY designed to make you give up and eat the debt. That is an explicit policy in medical billing, right up there with billing more to people who have less money (as they also lack the resources to fight the bills).
Show threadAbandoned AmericaMar 20, 2023
@Hasufin man I love this country. That's what it's all about, right there. The poisonous blackened heart of the United States
Show threadHasufin
@AbandonedAmerica Yeah. I was working helpdesk at a hospital and talked with the guy who used to handle billing.
I legit don't know why health insurance C-levels are alive.
Mar 20, 2023 at 8:09pmWeb