#health insurance is bullshit

[astolentoetag]

Scrolling through Facebook memories and find one from '06 about asking people what they remember about me. Most commenters I remembered who they are but one I do not. Nor do I know if I met them in highschool or college. Their comment was just about how I confused the English teacher with weird questions. That unfortunately does not narrow it down. That does not narrow it down at all.

To further muddle things they seemed to either already have or be in the process of transitioning and I can't tell which direction because they're pretty androgynous. I have no clue who this person is and I feel exceptionally guilty for forgetting someone after asking them what they remembered about me even if it's nearly two decades later.

Brains suck. I want a hard drive with 8k uhd timestamped recordings in chronically order. And spark notes for every month.

#yes I was that strange kid in school who just wasn't looking at the same world as everyone else #I don't like asking typical questions #how would you show affection if you were a cat? #undiagnosed kid #undiagnosed adult #health insurance is bullshit #how many books do you flit between at a time? #what's your random collection? #Where's my cyberpunk transhumanism? #if you were a wild dog would you trust people? why or why not? #if you play with my hair and tell me I'm pretty I'll probably do what you want trust or not. #why remember good things when you can remember trauma? #cats are awesome #fucking love dogs #we do not deserve dogs

[wolfeyedwitch]

I wish healthcare, and specifically healthcare insurance, was set up better. I have possible food allergies and an elimination diet was inconclusive, so my primary wants me to see an allergist.

How the process should go:

Primary refers me to an allergist

I call the allergist to set up an appointment

I go see the allergist.

That's it. That's literally how simple it should be.

How the process is actually going:

Primary refers me to an allergist

I call the allergist to set up an appointment

The lovely lady on the phone says that unfortunately that office doesn't take my insurance

I say no problem, I'll pay out of pocket

She informs me that it will be $200-350 for just the appointment, with the testing that is almost certain to happen costing another $11 per stick for skin testing. (I have 7 allergens needing testing, and I think they do multiple strengths to see just how much is needed for you to react)

I say yikes, thank you for informing me of that, I don't want to make an appointment at this time

I go back to my primary and say hi that allergist wasn't covered by my insurance could you please refer me to one that is

My doctor's staff informs me that it's my job to find which doctors are covered by my insurance and that they can't do that, and I should contact them again when I had names of local allergists that my insurance will cover

I boggle at that for a while and then go fuck it I think I just won't see an allergist, I'm not having any kind of change on this elimination diet anyway so I probably don't have allergies so what's the point

I end the elimination diet and celebrate the end of it by eating plenty of gluten and dairy, two of the things I was restricted from.

I get abdominal pain.

The abdominal pain is still here the next day.

I think yeah maybe I should actually see an allergist about this, at least skin testing will give more definitive answers and I can ask what the heck kind of symptoms even happen with this because I'm Confused and my primary didn't go into a ton of detail.

That's where I'm at. I still need to 1) look up who's covered by my insurance, and 2) contact my doc to get a referral to someone covered by my insurance, and then 3) actually make that appointment.

Screw all of this. I'm torn between wanting this to actually be something because then it's a concrete answer for some of my problems, and wanting this not to be anything because I desperately do not want to give up dairy and gluten. My diet is weird enough as it is, but I've been relatively stable on it, and now I'm messing with it and it's just. Complicated.

#medical stuff #health issues #food allergies #allergies #insurance #health insurance is bullshit

[tangledinink]

guess who just received. a. job offfeerrrrrrrr.

#excited for employment but also #mourning my unemployment era #this is good because. like. i need a job to survive #but also like. aw man i gotta work? sigh #start date forthcoming lmao #if i can just get past the shitty “ah fuck no fucking health insurance” bullshit era it'll be. ok #personal

[grollow]

X.x

I applied for low income insurance because I have no job and I really need help. Between endometriosis and mental shit I am in a bad way.

They require your bank statements. My parents used my account last month to pay their car payment (long story short, their own would've been in deficit). I specified this is what happened because I wanted to be transparent and-

The insurance place listed me as having over $1100 income per month. Which I don't have. I have no income. I have friends paying my bills because I can't.

But I'm pretty sure they're gonna decline me as a result. Like I'm 99% sure of this and I'm so tired and I'm so upset.

Try to do the right thing for my family and look what happens!

I should've known I couldn't actually get help. This country wants people like me to just disappear and die. Why did I ever think I had a chance? Stupid stupid stupid

#personal #rant #idk health insurance bullshit #me mid breakdown about it

[irishais]

FUCKING GODDAMNED UNITED SHIT-ASS HEALTHCARE HAS YET AGAIN DENIED MY CT BC SOMEONE ON THEIR END FUCKED UP AND FILED IT UNDER MY GYN, NOT MY ONCOLOGIST AND MY ONCOLOGIST'S OFFICE IS NOT ALLOWED TO SUBMIT A NEW CASE UNDER THE CORRECT NAME UNTIL MONDAY.

MY FUCKING APPOINTMENT IS ON TUESDAY. I AM ALREADY PRE-CHECKED IN FOR IT.

#cancer bullshit tag. #this is FUCKING INSANE #i have never experienced any of this level of absolute fuckery from a health insurance company

[watermelinoe]

i think the circadian rhythm disorder has ruined my life more than the pain disorder tbh

#i think the pain would be more manageable if i was getting good regular sleep #the pain is at its worst when i wake up esp if i had trouble falling asleep #but not having a consistent sleep schedule is a living nightmare #if it was delayed sleep phase disorder it would be perfect bc it would be *a schedule* #but not knowing what my sleep schedule will be a month from now is such bullshit #it's exhausting and isolating and not covered by health insurance :)) #and societally people just think you're fucking lazy and irresponsible #and if you would just do xyz you would be cured #this has been my entire life. farther back than i can remember even. #i was sleep deprived and jetlagged for most of my childhood #which makes you neurotic as hell #but yes if i just follow ur little ~sleep hygiene~ tips i'm sure i'll stop being a lazy pos and join productive society

[fearandhatred]

y'all i can't with this fuckass group project holy shit just let me do everything by myself i can't take this anymore

#fearandhatred #like are you BLIND. are you BLIND and ILLITERATE #i'm so mad i'm so mad i'm so mad #y'all okay within my group i'm working with this girl because we're doing two contrasting case studies (aids in the US and south africa) #i sent her. this is literally what i sent her okay. #“public health programs in africa -> more accessible to the public. vs private insurance in the US which is more exclusive” #you will not fucking believe the text she sent back to me #“but actually i feel that public health programs in africa would be more accessible compared to private in the us?” #WHAT THE FUCK. DID I JUST SAY #i'm actually about to cry oh my god i'm so flabbergasted #what the hell is going on in your head #like can you read #holy shit #WHAT? #wait guys i'm actually stunned like the reading comprehension is non existent and this isn't the only time #i've had to repeat my points to her over and over again like multiple times in the span of an hour #she didn't even know africa was a continent and not a country #oh my god #ohhh my god #i actually can't do this this week was supposed to be my rest week and i have to deal with this incompetent bullshit #i'm stunned i'm gobsmacked i'm flabbergasted

[apollo-zero-one]

I wish capitalism was a tangible object I could bite and claw at I start foaming at the mouth like a rabid dog when I think about it gwrrwhrwgwwrgwr

#my mom shouldn't have to have a job she is busy all goddamn day every goddamn day taking care of her mom and her 6 year old child #and she takes care of me and my brother and her husband this woman is exhausted #and she makes us breakfast and dinner every day and she watches all the neighborhood kids and and and #she is already fulfilling an extremely valuable roll in society!! why the FUCK should she have to have a job too!! #not even going to say 'outside the home' because her job IS OUTSIDE THE HOME she contributes to this whole damn community #It's BULLSHIT it's UNFAIR she deserves justice #and it's also bullshit and unfair that a household with three workinh adults cant afford a 4 bedroom family home. #We collectively make enoigj money that we lost our fucking health insurance and are being kicked out of our subsidized housing #But there are no homes anywhere near any of our jobs that we can afford so WHAT THE FUCK #and every part of it is capitalism and I hate it I hate it I hate it I hate it #Is the purpose of life not to find and be with wnd care for loved ones?? are humans not born to love and be loved and help one another?? #what went wrong? why did we let it get this far? why are we taking a mother away from her 6 year old daughter so she can afford #both of their medicines that they need to live healthy lives??? #A caretaker away from a disabled elderly woman? A safe person to leave your children with away from the village? Why the goddamn divide?? #sorry there was ten minutes begween that tag and this one because I had to cry I am calmer now #still heavily anti-capitalist tho

[waywardvagabonds]

Equal parts excited and full of anxiety and just dead tired right now.

#third times the charm and all that right? #finding an apartment was nowhere near as stressful for my last two big moves #but on the bright side pushing through the bullshit means i don’t have to do all my health insurance and car stuff twice over #because i now have an address!!! #y’all know me i am not one to hate on taxes but if i had ended up having to retitle my car TWICE #pro tip DON’T move in january or when your car’s registration is about to expire #i am regrettably doing both what a nightmare

[spoonful116]

"Hey just [American health insurance company] checking in to see if you still can't take [medication that failed] and to try to pressure you into taking [medication that failed] instead of [medication that work extremely well]"

#spoonie #disability #chronic disability #american health system #american horror story #american healthcare #american health insurance #health insurance #medical insurance #insurance #capitalist society #capitalism is killing us #capitalist system #anti capitalist #capitalism #capitalist hell #capitalist dystopia #capitalist bullshit

[burningchandelier]

I am battling my insurance company because they decided to stop paying for the only medication that has ever worked for my migraines.

I have gone for months without this kind of pain and now I have become accustomed to not hurting.

It has been a week since I had my meds and I am not a happy camper. If they do not respond to my doctor's strongly worded letter urging them to keep paying, then they are going to start getting phone calls from me.

They do not want phone calls from me.

#medicine #insurance #american insurance is bullshit #american health system #fuck this shit

[wolfeyedwitch]

Health insurance is dumb and complicated and I wish I hadn't turned 26

#irl #irl stuff #health insurance is bullshit

[criminal-sen]

It is fun to get a like on an old post so you can scroll down and see what you were up to back in the day...

...But Watch Out

#just came across the 4 month lapse where i escaped from my ex and moved in with family #and all i had to say about my return to tumblr was 'man I'm fucking stupid' (cuz id forgotten my password or some shit) #like goddamn dude cut yourself some slack #ugh i am going thru some BULLSHIT rn with health insurance but nothing is as bad as it was

[krbkitten]

my therapist told me today that actually i adult very well, i just deal with more bullshit than the average bear

#between my medical issues and the insurance bullshit and the not graduating because my professors didnt put in my grades #and my brake pads going at the same time my muffler comes unattached #like nothing is not complicated #youre telling me things are straight forward for other people?? #krbkitten #text #mental health #executive dysfunction

[nando161mando]

Privatized Healthcare: Where the punishment for being poor is poor health or death

#private healthcare #private health insurance #privatisation #healthcare privatization #ausgov #politas #auspol #tasgov #taspol #australia #neoliberal capitalism #fuck neoliberals #anthony albanese #albanese government #anti capitalism #capitalism #anti capitalist #capitalist hell #capitalist dystopia #capitalist bullshit #class war #classwar #anticapitalista #occupationalhealthandsafety #health #healthy recipes #reminder #reminders #anti cop #anti capitalist love notes

[moss-on-a-rock]

Learning about insurance excess was my least favourite thing to discover. Like you mean i have to pay the first $500? Even though you get my money every week?

#its bullshit #at least we dont have it for health insurance #🍄