Category: Healthcare
More Medical Dipshittery
This stuff doesn’t even surprise me anymore, but it’s still funny in a way. So for two months, I’ve been getting bills from McLaren Greater Lansing to pay an $80 copay on a lab test that hasn’t been performed. I tried calling my doctor (who ordered the test at my…
CVS [doesn’t care]’mark
I have always prided myself on being pretty libertarian in my beliefs, but a single experience calling CVS Caremark (our prescription drug insurance) has made me decide to lobby with the Leftists to get the entire industry out of business. Here’s the back story: wife needed an eye surgery and…
Part of the #tripledemic
I still don’t know if we had flu, RSV, COVID, or something else, but my family got hit by part of this #tripledemic in the American Mid-West and were collectively down for about two weeks leading up to Christmas. Thankfully we had nothing in our lungs and were never short…
“Talk to your doctor…” Yeah, right!
To all these people that say, “talk to your doctor about…”: how many people out there actually have a family doctor who they can call up and just have a chat with? I sure don’t. In 10 years, I’ve never found a doctor that wasn’t booked out for months and…
Healthcare Reform
[William…] thinks the best health care reform would be to increase transparency in the COST of health care. Example: you go to the ER because you feel sick; they want to do a test and say “This will cost you or your insurance company $x”. You would then find out…
American Healthcare
I had some moles removed from my back last week and as a precaution the doctor sent them in “for biopsy”. A pathologist checks them out under a microscope then reports back. I got a phone call today from one of the receptionists at the clinic. She says, “The results…