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 threadAbandoned AmericaMar 20, 2023
Healthcare in the United States is really going to rock when the provider phone tree dumps you into a AI chatbot that doesn't understand what you're saying and gives you incorrect/useless info for hours and there's no way to talk to a human because they fired all but one real person who is now split between 8 companies
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@AbandonedAmerica Pretty much nailed it 🎯
Mar 21, 2023 at 6:41amWeb
Show threadAbandoned AmericaMar 21, 2023
@tbs Thanks!