{"id":151,"date":"2020-02-03T02:55:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T02:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/2020\/02\/03\/what-private-healthcare-insurance-is-like-in-the-usa\/"},"modified":"2020-02-03T02:55:00","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T02:55:00","slug":"what-private-healthcare-insurance-is-like-in-the-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/2020\/02\/03\/what-private-healthcare-insurance-is-like-in-the-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"What private healthcare insurance is like in the USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"-en-clipboard: true;\">\nI got this from a friend in Kentucky. I have her permission to post it, with the name of her husband&#8217;s former employer, through which she got her insurance, redacted. This is a great illustration of how the private health care system works &#8211; the one so many Democrats think the USA should keep:<\/div>\n<div style=\"-en-clipboard: true;\">\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"-en-clipboard: true;\">\n<i>I haven\u2019t been back to the therapist I saw because there has been this big pissing contest between Medicare and Anthem over who is primary for me. It\u2019s taken weeks to get it settled. Just got it worked out on Friday so now I can get back to seeing my providers.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/div>\n<div style=\"-en-clipboard: true;\">\n<i><br \/><\/i><\/div>\n<div>\n<i>Anthem has been paying as primary for over a year and suddenly decides they shouldn\u2019t be. So they went back and pulled payment from EVERYONE they had paid. So all of my providers are calling me&#8230;pissed. Which I understand. So I call Anthem. They can\u2019t explain it. They tell me to call Company Name Redacted. Company Name Redacted&nbsp;can\u2019t explain it. They contact Anthem. Anthem can\u2019t explain it to them. Send them higher up the chain. Still can\u2019t explain it. Send them even higher. Finally someone explains it. Company Name Redacted notifies me. I call Medicare which is a nightmare of being sent from department to department. Finally get it straightened out.<br \/>\n<\/i><\/div>\n<div>\n<i><br \/><\/i><\/div>\n<p><!--?xml version=\"1.0\" encoding=\"UTF-8\"?--><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<i>Now it all has to be rebilled. It&#8217;s fucked up.&nbsp;<\/i><\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\nShe has stories like this ALL THE TIME. She is someone who NEEDS her health insurance. I hear these stories and think, shit, what am I going to do when I need more than an annual checkup?&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got this from a friend in Kentucky. I have her permission to post it, with the name of her husband&#8217;s former employer, through which she got her insurance, redacted. This is a great illustration of how the private health care system works &#8211; the one so many Democrats think the USA should keep: I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}