So, I've written in the past about my husband's scooter accident and his really bad leg break. He's not healing, so his orthopedic surgeon wanted to send him to a specialist's specialist, as he put it. We've been having trouble getting him in to see one that actually takes Tricare Prime.
Well, we found one with a private practice as well as working for the VA. So he sent my husband downtown to get in the system. First, it took a whole day off work to do it. He got there and only had part of the information they wanted. They don't tell you everything you need. I suppose they expect you to either not have a job, or just want you to miss more than one day. They wanted to know how much money our family spent on medical expenses. Really? When I've been battling cancer for 18 months? When we have a child with ADHD and glasses and another one who they kicked off our insurance when he turned 21, even though he'll be living with us the rest of his life?
People take note, because this is government insurance. This is what you'll face if Obamacare doesn't get repealed. Think it won't happen to you? Think again.
They wanted to know his sources of income. Now if this is a Veteran's hospital, and they serve veterans, shouldn't it be more important to offer up your DD214 (proof of service). Plus they claim it was the wrong DD214. Ummm, it's the one you gave me, Uncle Sam, how can it be the wrong one? They wanted to know how much money he had in his bank. Of course, they don't care how much money is put on a credit card. We show a higher balance than we actually have because we pay our credit cards off each month. Wow, what a concept. Right now we're carrying a balance for the second time in 10 years. We just sold a house we owned with his parents, and knew our mortgage was going to be higher than half what we cleared. So we had to have some money to make up the difference...$2336.26 to be exact. That's a couple months on the Discover card.
He was actually "lucky." He got to see his new primary care physician (had to get one in order to get a referral to the new Orthopedic surgeon) and get in to the xray machine to prove he wasn't lying about his leg.
I had tried just about 3 years ago to get into the system and was told that during the Clinton administration they made it where you had to be indigent in order to get any services. I suppose that's one thing Obama did right. My husband now qualifies. I don't know if it's because I only had 4 years and was trying to get seen for a childhood trauma that was causing PTSD, and my husband did 20 years and has an injury, or what. But I could hear the lady in the background and she sounded totally illiterate. He called me to verify what we had in the accounts and ask what we paid in medical bills. I said I'd have to go through the checkbook registers going back a year to find that out. I may do it just to see what we actually paid. But he complained that it wouldn't matter because Clinton changed it to income based. This woman actually said no, Reagan did it, in 1996. How little history do you know? I know Reagan wasn't in office in 1996, because he signed my discharge papers in 1988, and that's when he was in office the last. My husband said that all the employees he met barely had a high school education. He said they all had the Taker mentality.
So, these inept employees are going to be the same brand of people running all the health care systems if Obamacare doesn't get repealed. How would you like the doctor you go to asking you how much money you make? I thought this was supposed to be free health care? Maybe not if you make above a certain amount, huh?
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