Jan 11 2010
Do the Math
In past years I have gone to various drs. for my annual mandatory thyroid tests.
When I had health insurance, I ended up paying nothing on the tests (which I thought was SWEET), my co-pay, the portion of the vist not covered by my deductible, and the lab potion not covered by insurance.
That total was right around 110.00 , not including my monthly premium of three hundred dollars.
Without insurance it was about three hundred dollars, because I had to pay for it all out of pocket.
I just got all those EXACT same tests done (including labs, office visit, tests) for 68.00.
WITH insurance I was paying more than that.
How’d I do it? I visited a local dr. who REFUSES insurance and who will NOT partake of the Great American Health Business Scam.
And he does house calls too.
If anybody needs proof of how deliberately screwed up the health business is for INSURED people, I now have a paper trail worth of evidence. If you’d like to borrow it to show your disbelieving friends, I’ll happily make copies and pass them out.
We’re so missing the boat on health care reform, people.
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