What is it, 47 million people in this country that don’t have health insurance? That sucks.<\/p>\n
You know what else sucks? Being one of the ones that does<\/em> and still getting screwed by the health “care” system.<\/p>\n I have a friend who doesn’t quite blow her knee out, but messes it up pretty good training for a marathon. At the orthopedist, the insurance billing lady gasps, “Your health insurance plan makes you pay 40%<\/em> of all specialist charges?!” You know when the billing person<\/em>, who sees every conceivable plan, is aghast, your health plan is crap.<\/p>\n So, anyway, at the orthopedist, she bends over, if you know what I mean.<\/p>\n At the physical therapist, totally rogered.<\/p>\n Then she goes home and waits on hold for AN HOUR AND A HALF with BlueCross\/BlueShield, and they tell her, just kidding, you pay 40% after<\/em> you’ve met your FIVE-THOUSAND-DOLLAR deductible. Up until then, you pay 100%. That’s 700 bucks to the ortho, and 500 to the PT. Squeal, pig.<\/p>\n But the good news, they tell her, is, “preventive care” is covered in full, so that colonoscopy her doctor keeps saying she needs because her dad got colon cancer at 48, the one she’s been wanting to put off: gratis.<\/p>\n How many ways can my friend take it up the ass from the health care industry?<\/p>\n Lots, apparently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is it, 47 million people in this country that don’t have health insurance? That sucks. You know what else sucks? Being one of the ones that does and still getting screwed by the health “care” system. I have a friend who doesn’t quite blow her knee out, but messes it up pretty good training … Continue reading Squeal<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-random"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1517"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1524,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517\/revisions\/1524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avidbruxist.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}