“Unbelievable Insurance Nightmares: 50 True Stories That Will Leave You Fuming and Fearful”
Months later I mentioned this to my endocrinologist who then mentioned “quick labs.” It’s an unadvertised blood test that covers everything I need for $75. Of course this is unadvertised.
Anyway, my fellow South Dakota diabetics, ask for Avera quick labs if your current blood work is ungodly expensive. No appointment necessary at participating facilities.
Not murican, Canadian here.
2 years ago we rented a house near a beach in northeast usa.
we have 3 kids and our youngest, was 1 year old at that time. she couldn’t stop crying it was insane, we tried tylenol and everything we could but at a point we said let’s go to the hospital.
I was NOT happy about spending 12 hours in an emergency room during our vacations but whatever to. turns out it took LEGIT 15 minutes in and out of the hospital; she had an ottitis.
I couldn’t believe how fast and efficient it was and everyone was happy.
6 months later we received a letter from a collection agency, we owed 18 000$ USD for that 15 minutes visit lol.
we had insurance and we never paid it, but had to fight until recently to get a final letter from them saying we owe nothing.
our insurance company was not happy with how the hospital billed them and decided to request a revised invoice, hospital basically said f**k off and charged us instead.
This is super tame and not a terrible ending, but it does show how f****d up the system is. I’m diagnosed ADHD, take adderall. Been using adderall (specifically the name brand) for like 2 yrs, and my 30 day supply costs me $10. I received a notice from my provider that they were dropping adderall from their covered medications. I forget this, and order my meds, and the pharmacist says “that’ll be $630″….holy s**t, okay, is there generics? “Yes, but your ‘scrip is 15 mg dosage, generics are only 10 mg, you’ll need an updated ‘scrip from the doctor to get your supply as 1-1/2 10 mg pills.” I got it taken care of within a week, but just shows how at the drop of a hat my meds went from covered and 10 bux to not and 600+ dollars.
My company decided not to auto renew our health insurance this year — and only let us know by email that they were doing this. I came to find in mid December that me, my wife and my four kids will have no insurance in 2025.
They’ve auto renewed every year except this one and did it because “plans had changed significantly”. The plan i had in 2024 is available at the same cost in 2025.
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