She literally called me at the time of the appointment to tell me she can’t see me. She was so apologetic, but was like “I absolutely can treat you, but I’m not allowed by your insurance”. Fuck this country.
Update: I went to urgent care. Before leaving home, I called to be sure they would accept my insurance (Aetna). They said yes… After arriving for my appointment, they told me they do not accept my insurance. I will simply leave without paying.
Final Update: I can understand that that differences in physical biology demand different attention. That’s not what I’m complaining about. It’s the way it’s set up. I was told that at my appointment. Why not just refer me to a specialist? The website could’ve even just referred me to urgent care (yes, my insurance requires a primary care physician’s referral for urgent care, according to the urgent care facility). But, no, their goal is to obfuscate and irritate until the patient gives you and pays out-of-pocket.
I was able to receive care at a cost I could not afford. I won’t discuss what I had to do to “find” the money to pay for care and prescriptions. That being said, the condition I was diagnosed with was more serious than a simple infection, and I’m glad that I saw a doctor. I need further treatment and just hope I can get insurance to cover any of it.
If you’re an American reading this, please consider ways to get involved in organizing in support of Medicare For All in your community. Here is one resource I have found. We don’t need to live like this. We deserve better. Stay safe and healthy, friends.
I’m going to assume you weren’t politically aware when Obamacare was being passed. It barely made it through as it was. There was absolutely zero chance universal health care could ever have been passed at that time. To claim Obama had the power to enact it is insane.
Also, since Obamacare contained huge expansions for medicaid eligibility, and Obamacare is, as you claim, “literally a conservative system”, wouldn’t medicaid for all be the most conservative system of them all?
Finally, no, no one is left in ERs to die, insured or not. Heck you don’t even need to be a citizen. That hasn’t been true since 1986. That said, you would get a hefty bill if they actually know who you are and I do fully support a system where that is not the case and one can get treatment without worrying about the cost.
Technically, if the only thing he could pass was a conservative system because the conservatives would block anything further left of it, then yeah, that explains how the ACA is a conservative system.
Obama was very much a neoliberal who mostly continued George W. Bush policies. (Bush was a far-right conservative, even if he was overshadowed by Trump). Curiously, Biden is continuing Trump policies, even to the point of letting people in crisis die.
The Democratic party has had stopgaps to keep it neoliberal (that is establishment, corporate-sponsored) since Carter, who was too left wing for its tastes. In both cases of Carter and Occasio-Cortez, party policy was changed to assure that no-one like them could be elected again. (Though the policy change of the DCCC after Occasio-Cortez was allegedly reversed due to public pressure.)
As Oxford noted, the US is not a true democracy, but an oligarchy with small democratic features. And now the GOP wants to make sure it’s a one-party system, so they don’t even have to bother campaigning.