kaitou | Socialist, Fascist, whatever, I don't care. Fix it. (Reply)

soranokumo was asking about my back last night, and I'm very pleased to say that I feel 100% better. I really owe a lot to the great Nurse Practitioner I saw, who did more than throw pain killers at me. And to the Physical Therapists who gave me exercises and stretches that helped get me back on my feet and will help me from ever screwing myself up like that again.

In that sense, my health care was pretty ossim.

In other ways...not so much. The x-ray the NP ordered was denied, so that's $235 out of pocket. The injection she ordered was also denied, so that's another 60. And the bills from the visit to Urgent Care, the ER and Physical Therapy haven't even been submitted yet, let alone processed. The NP was already worried that insurance wouldn't cover the massage portion of therapy when she ordered it, so I'm not holding out much hope for that. I should be going back to the doctor to check on my iron levels, my prescription iron pills have run out, and it's more than 2 months after they told me to come back. But that ended up costing me $200 to get my bloodwork done. And I'm reluctant to pay that again just to get told 'yes, keep taking iron.'

And I know I've got it good. This is good insurance I'm on, and the whole thing could have been so much worse. This isn't going to put me in the poor house, it just means I can't go to Boston anytime soon, and maybe I should knit the yarn I've got instead of eyeing that pretty silk that comes with beads and sequins. I have worked with someone who had to get a second job to pay off her medical bills after falling off a ladder. And again, we had pretty 'good' insurance at the time.

So it just makes me angry to see these talking heads go on like we don't need health care reform. I know there are bad point in every system, but this is getting ridiculous.

(ETA: HR says I can fight some of this at least)