Borzak
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I may go back on medicaid which the first time it was because to get ACA insurance I had to give them my income info and they put me on medicaid due to no income at the time which was fine I had money.
But now I am paying right at $2k a month for insurance with a crazy high deductible that I haven't even reached this year until this last hospital stay. Most of my visits are blood work at most.
I did pay $3k for a CT scan which I am in the process of threatening to get it and/or the report for it at least since I got nothing at all, but a bill. I've been doing some research and for almost all my shit medicaid would just cover it. Blue Cross apparently doesn't cover Dexcom continuous glucose meters much at all anymore. Medicaid does at least in this state. Without insurance for a month of sensors is $425. No thanks. My niece works at that hospital in the imaging department and she said they send almost all of it off to someone else under contract for them to generate a report on it. I had multiple MRIs of head, neck, spine with and without contrast that I know for a fact the Dr. that ordered didn't look at it or even read the report. I did not know until I went to the hospital to pick up a copy of the MRI and the radiologist mentioned sometime soon you will need back surgery and by the way you have a bad infection that shows up on the MRI, said he called the Dr. and left a message. Was news to me some months later after I lost hearing in one ear due to an infection. Oh you can't sue in most of the south for malpractice if it's been more than X months which is a very short time while you are trying to get something actually done medically.
That's only part of my rant on how the ACA is thinly guised program to get a shitload of people onto medicaid. I've mentioned it before but retty sure the state has 50 to 100 people trying to get people onto medicaid for every person that can give you info on what is required not to qualify for medicaid. I went through it before. Since I pay myself I asked and nobody knew, or wanted to say, and asking about getting off medicaid was a foreign question to most of them. It was like you won the lottery why would you not want it?
But now I am paying right at $2k a month for insurance with a crazy high deductible that I haven't even reached this year until this last hospital stay. Most of my visits are blood work at most.
I did pay $3k for a CT scan which I am in the process of threatening to get it and/or the report for it at least since I got nothing at all, but a bill. I've been doing some research and for almost all my shit medicaid would just cover it. Blue Cross apparently doesn't cover Dexcom continuous glucose meters much at all anymore. Medicaid does at least in this state. Without insurance for a month of sensors is $425. No thanks. My niece works at that hospital in the imaging department and she said they send almost all of it off to someone else under contract for them to generate a report on it. I had multiple MRIs of head, neck, spine with and without contrast that I know for a fact the Dr. that ordered didn't look at it or even read the report. I did not know until I went to the hospital to pick up a copy of the MRI and the radiologist mentioned sometime soon you will need back surgery and by the way you have a bad infection that shows up on the MRI, said he called the Dr. and left a message. Was news to me some months later after I lost hearing in one ear due to an infection. Oh you can't sue in most of the south for malpractice if it's been more than X months which is a very short time while you are trying to get something actually done medically.
That's only part of my rant on how the ACA is thinly guised program to get a shitload of people onto medicaid. I've mentioned it before but retty sure the state has 50 to 100 people trying to get people onto medicaid for every person that can give you info on what is required not to qualify for medicaid. I went through it before. Since I pay myself I asked and nobody knew, or wanted to say, and asking about getting off medicaid was a foreign question to most of them. It was like you won the lottery why would you not want it?
