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 threadAnne JeffersonMar 20, 2023
@AbandonedAmerica Lots and lots of sympathy. At a former job, HR messed up the birthdate of a friend's child and then denied the labor and delivery costs as having occurred several days before the baby's birthday. Then several years later, they did the same thing to me! Can't pay for NICU if the baby hasn't been born. :o
Show threadAbandoned AmericaMar 20, 2023
@annejefferson oh no! That's really criminal. People should actually literally go to jail for that. It's theft
Show threadAnne Jefferson
@AbandonedAmerica In both cases it eventually got straightened out - and I hope your situation does too. Still incredibly frustrating - and time consuming - to deal with!
Mar 20, 2023 at 8:40pmWeb