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Just received a email from my doctor with a 288 dollar bill. Which confused me because I have health insurance. So call my healthcare provider because I should only have a co pay. I mean I pay 80 dollars out of every check for this plan.

Then the lady on the phone with zero empathy tells me that they only pay after I meet the deductible. Which is $7000!!! Like what the fuck. This is why the whole healthcare system needs to be burn to the ground and start over with universal healthcare. To make matters worse, spoke to my employer and they say I can't cancel or make changes because its not an open window. WHY THE FUCK DO WE HAVE ONLY SET TIMES WE CAN MAKE CHANGES TO OUR HEALTHCARE PLANS that we pay for?

No wonder one of these parasites was a shot in the back. They are all monsters and anyone who works for them are no better. So fucking pissed right now! Seeing fucking red. Now got figure out how to come up with 288 dollars to pay the doctor bill!

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[โ€“] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

No, you're just making some shit up, and acting incredulous at other things.

You are indeed trying to be an asshole.

I've turned down ambulance rides, got an uber instead, or fucking walked.

I've walked out of hospitals after ambulance rides, without giving them any id.

Back when Covid was going on, and I actually could have benefitted from having broken bones set... I just sat in a waiting toom for 10 hours.

Needed to eat something that day, got up left.

And yeah, I did set my own broken bone.

(I eventually managed to get my shit together enough to get a whole body's worth of xray's done - doc told i did a pretty good job of setting it

I've been homeless for years and know enough first aid, basic trauma response to keep myself and other people I ran into alive.

My 'excuse' for why I'm not currently doing anything is that I'm fucking crippled, can't afford the ongoing therapy, so I went to a few appointments, got them to print out the excercises, and just do it at home.

What's your excuse?

I don't have a car, and getting to the appointments is too painful, regresses my recovery, because no nearby medical center of any kind has a transit option, and the local charity that tries to is stretched rather thin.

You're acting like I'm an anti vax raw milk drinking measles party promoter.

You're exactly as arrogant as I figured you'd be, as, you know, a status quo apologist.

I hope what happened to me happens to you so you get a bit of reality check. No ids, no money no phone, 2 years. Good luck.

[โ€“] neatchee@piefed.social 1 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Oh I see. So YOUR life circumstances are relevant to what you choose to do and not do, and why you are in the situations you're in, but nobody else's could possibly be?

Not like other people have families to take care of.

You can pretend all you want that you're taking a stand, but you all but admitted that you were prepared to use the resources of the system in place, you just didn't like how it went when you tried. Or didn't have the means to get yourself there.

I'm sure everyone looks quite small from way up on that horse.

You are exactly the self-righteous, judgemental hypocrite I thought you were.

Whatever helps you sleep at night, I guess.