How the fuck is Healthcare slavery? How? We have Medicare in Australia - no-one is indentured digging ditches because of it. Looking after your population so they can contribute to the society they pay taxes i..... Oh why fucking bother... GRRRRRRRRRR....
My father has been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. The medicine itself is covered by his insurance, Blue Shield, but he also needs to take a pill that is supposed to enhance the medicine. He was given 4 or 5 options - all costing about $500 a month, to see which is covered by his insurance. NONE of them are covered by Blue Shield.
His doctor gave him an address to write and see if he qualifies to get the medicine for free. He did qualify to get the medicine for free. When he went to the pharmacy with a voucher from the manufacturer to get the subscription fulfilled for free he was told no. The pharmacy had to run the FREE prescription through his insurance and since Blue Shield didn't cover the medicine he wasn't allowed to have it. He had to go back to his doctor and the doctor had to fight with Blue Shield to get a free medicine added to his record as a special exemption before the pharmacy would fill the prescription.
When an insurance company can override a doctor and deny you medicine when they are not paying for it because everything HAS to have their approval - in my option THAT sounds like slavery.
Yintrovert on November 11st, 2019 at 11:41 UTC »
As a nurse, I feel like a slave to insurance companies and big hospital conglomerates.
Brenndoon on November 11st, 2019 at 11:52 UTC »
How the fuck is Healthcare slavery? How? We have Medicare in Australia - no-one is indentured digging ditches because of it. Looking after your population so they can contribute to the society they pay taxes i..... Oh why fucking bother... GRRRRRRRRRR....
deadKiyote on November 11st, 2019 at 14:22 UTC »
My father has been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes. The medicine itself is covered by his insurance, Blue Shield, but he also needs to take a pill that is supposed to enhance the medicine. He was given 4 or 5 options - all costing about $500 a month, to see which is covered by his insurance. NONE of them are covered by Blue Shield.
His doctor gave him an address to write and see if he qualifies to get the medicine for free. He did qualify to get the medicine for free. When he went to the pharmacy with a voucher from the manufacturer to get the subscription fulfilled for free he was told no. The pharmacy had to run the FREE prescription through his insurance and since Blue Shield didn't cover the medicine he wasn't allowed to have it. He had to go back to his doctor and the doctor had to fight with Blue Shield to get a free medicine added to his record as a special exemption before the pharmacy would fill the prescription.
When an insurance company can override a doctor and deny you medicine when they are not paying for it because everything HAS to have their approval - in my option THAT sounds like slavery.