I fell and broke my wrist in two places. My urgent care place was wonderful, but referred me to a specialist they claimed carried my insurance. In fact, they did not. This is a common problem. Lists of covered providers are years out of date. Nothing is more maddening, especially when you are hurting and sick, to repeatedly be given the runaround about something as simple as whether a doctor accepts your insurance. If an insurance company claims that a doctor is in network, they should be liable if their list is wrong.
How Long before I Can Carry a Pitchfork?
Ted Rall
Ted Rall is a syndicated political cartoonist for Andrews McMeel Syndication and WhoWhatWhy.org and Counterpoint. He is a contributor to Centerclip and co-host of "The Final Countdown" talk show on Radio Sputnik. He is a graphic novelist and author of many books of art and prose, and an occasional war correspondent. He is, recently, the author of the graphic novel "2024: Revisited."
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And we all learn the three big lessons of end-stage capitalism: 1. Don’t get sick. Ever. 2. Don’t believe anyone at your doctor’s office knows what they’re doing. 3. Don’t believe they actually care at all (they don’t, not really). 4. Keep voting the “lesser of two evils.”
Wait, that’s four.
I hope your wrist gets better soon. And I hope all the health insurance CEOs out there have a great holiday season. They really do deserve those ginormous raises their boards of directors vote them every year.
Reason #23 the Democrats lost: they are so in thrall to the private medical-pharmaceutical-insurance complex that they flushed “Medicare for All,” not to mention “a national healthcare system” down the memory hole.
I would argue to universal health care would be a strong conservative move.
It’s looking like a pitchfork came for the CEO of United Healthcare…