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Originally Posted by robayon
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I have taken fish antibiotics and I have also removed a kidney stone from my own urethra with a paper clip, if we are still doing anecdotes
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That’s some MacGyver shit, damn!
Yeah I dunno what happened to just doing a simple co-pay. I remember my Ma and my stepdad’s relative both got stung in the ankle by stingrays in Mexico (was a school of them) and we went to a Mexico hospital. The nurse came out with her fly down and sweating, and tried to use the same needle on my ma that she had used on my stepdad’s relative until my ma asked if she could get a new needle
But the shot they gave her cleared it right up like magic, and then on the way out there was no paperwork and they just said that’ll be $20. Ma gave them a $20 bill at the counter and we walked out and were like “why can’t American hospitals be this easy?”
One holdover from Obama is the removal of the pre-existing condition thing barring someone from coverage. I called my insurance before my surgery to answer questions about if it was due to a car accident or workplace injury (them wanting to get out of paying it obviously), and I said to the phone specialist “no this was a genetic condition where my nerve slipped out of the bone groove it should be in”….and as I was saying it my co-worker was like doing a “shut up” motion to me
Afterwards I asked him why he was saying shut up, and he said they could use the pre-existing thing to not cover you, since it pre-existed their coverage. I was like oh shit I heard about that, and we looked it up and this was undone during the obama admin and remains as something they are not allowed to do. So thanks Obama, and I mean that un-ironically
I also told my co-worker that the insurance got the report from my elbow doctor about the condition, so even if I lied and said it wasn’t pre-existing I dunno if that would have saved me