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health insurance is getting worse, not better
2012-Feb-14, Tuesday 08:50 amObamacare was touted as either being a government takeover of the healthcare system (by Republicans) or a new standard in minimum care for all Americans (by Democrats). I think that either fantasy would be a welcome improvement over the truth.
I can't tell that anything at all has improved for me as different provisions of the new health care law become enforced. In fact, my Minnesota-subsidized health insurance is steadily getting worse. First, I discovered as I tried to fill a prescription at Walgreen's last month that they no longer accept my MN Care coverage. Now, I discover in a new notice that "Auto withdrawal of payments for all health care programs is ending". I'll have to manually make a payment each month. The odds of my doing so on time in perpetuity are extremely low. I'm sure they're counting on it, so they can dump me and a lot of other people off of their public assistance. Plus, I keep getting notices of "payment denied" for various lab tests and procedures that have been done in recent months, although I've yet to receive a bill for whatever it is that was denied.
The only good news here is that my biopsies came back with no problems. They found no evidence of infection, inflammation, or cancer. I've been regularly taking B12 and multivitamin pills since my procedures. I've noticed no improvement so far, however, in the neuron damage. I still have the neuropathy and muscle twitches. I'll give it a few more months before dropping my hopes that my problem was B12 absorption rather than multiple sclerosis.
I can't tell that anything at all has improved for me as different provisions of the new health care law become enforced. In fact, my Minnesota-subsidized health insurance is steadily getting worse. First, I discovered as I tried to fill a prescription at Walgreen's last month that they no longer accept my MN Care coverage. Now, I discover in a new notice that "Auto withdrawal of payments for all health care programs is ending". I'll have to manually make a payment each month. The odds of my doing so on time in perpetuity are extremely low. I'm sure they're counting on it, so they can dump me and a lot of other people off of their public assistance. Plus, I keep getting notices of "payment denied" for various lab tests and procedures that have been done in recent months, although I've yet to receive a bill for whatever it is that was denied.
The only good news here is that my biopsies came back with no problems. They found no evidence of infection, inflammation, or cancer. I've been regularly taking B12 and multivitamin pills since my procedures. I've noticed no improvement so far, however, in the neuron damage. I still have the neuropathy and muscle twitches. I'll give it a few more months before dropping my hopes that my problem was B12 absorption rather than multiple sclerosis.