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The next time they tell you Americans are “happy” with their employer provided health insurance remember that that “happiness” is fueled by willful ignorance of what the alternatives are really like and fear of losing what little crappy health care they currently have.
Honestly, nevermind the low price, if seeing doctors was this logistically easy I’d have way better health. With adhd/anxiety/depression, seeing doctors is usually just too complicated and takes too much energy to deal with.
Anonymous asked:
Tbh I don’t care, I hate therapists anyway. I had shitty experiences with them as a kid and that’s it. That ruined therapists for me. Seeing one is just gonna make me more irritable, and there’s absolutely no god damn way I’m gonna trust some random ass stranger enough to get anywhere with it.
The doc told me to look for local ones, I did, there weren’t any, that’s that.
Anonymous asked:
Tbh same I have a kind of obscure health insurance plan and he’s my only option in the city
spacey-rogue asked:
Man since yall are talking about how small the world is, I work for an health insurance plan, and I swear a good 1/5 of my calls come from Flint, MI. The rest come from Illinois (Wayne County), SC, GA, and CA.
in flint we be havin health problems
hey guys psa regarding hospital bills
don’t just pay it. do not automatically pay the hospital bill when you receive it. call your health insurance provider and POLITELY say, “excuse me, i just received a bill for $1200 for my hospital visit/ER visit/etc., is that the correct amount i’m supposed to pay?” because hospitals bill you before your health insurance and they will take your money no matter how the amount due may change based on your health insurance looking at it. 90% of the time, if your health insurance is in any way involved in the payment of that bill, you do not have to pay as much as the hospital is billing you for. call your health insurance provider first, and POLITELY request clarification, always remember that the person you are talking to is human and this is just their job, and then you will very likely find out you actually only owe $500.
don’t shout at anyone about it, don’t get mad, just understand that this is The Way Things Are right now and call your health insurance provider before paying the bill your hospital just sent you. there’s a chance the hospital bill might be correct, true, but call your health insurance provider.
THIS IS SUPER IMPORTANT. after my car accident last year the hospital billed me ~$8000. They sent me letters asking me to pay, and I called them back saying my insurance was processing the claim. This is also what I told the collection agency when they kept calling me about the $1000 emergency room fee (billed separately from the hospital fee, mind you). Once everything got straightened out, all I was actually liable for was my $200 emergency copay.
!!!!!!! things my ass didn’t know !!!!!!!!
Yes this is a life lesson my adulting ass didn’t know I needed and I’m out 80 bucks for an anti-nausea pill. 😒😒😒😒😒
Also if you do pay before insurance goes through or you can’t reach insurance or whatever, insurance will usually reimburse you the correct amount. They might “forget” for a long time because insurance sucks and is usually slow, but even if you have to pay more than you should upfront, you should be able to get a check from insurance if you keep on them about it.
Also, 90% of the time you can get them to schedule you on a payment plan. They know people can’t pay, and rather than just not getting money, they will take $25 - $50 per month instead.
Admin J
24 million people are about to lose their health insurance all because greedy ass republicans feel like taking it and people still wanna be oblivious to how scary America is getting
And an estimated 48,000 are going to loose their lives.
yeah guys this isn’t an exaggeration……this plan is really fucking bad. literally, 24 million people are gonna be robbed of their healthcare all because rich politicians woke up one morning and decided to make poor people’s lives harder…..,, and that’s not even the end of it. this plan goes against rape victims, those suffering with PPD, domestic violence victims, trans people, abortions/birth control, infants, and maternity leave. people suffering with deadly diseases who had Obamacare in the past will have to pay 10 times more for proper treatment, which will cause premiums to rise. people are literally going to fucking die if this passes through the senate…. “land of the free” my ass.
I’d take health care and no children in cages if it meant, like, fewer kinds of apple juice to choose from, idk.
Because this version of the post doesn’t have it:
HE IS IN A RESTAURANT SUPPLY STORE. It’s not even SUPPOSED to have a fucktillion name brands!
At universities you see a lot more casual classism and it’s just like… I see you. I see your disgusting ass. I see you telling people that the poor shouldn’t have health care or a house or access to food stamps. I see you complaining about people having the audacity to be paid a liveable wage. I see you talking about the poor as if they were some sort of subhuman burden. I see yo nasty ass.
The images above are from the DSM-5, which is the latest edition of the American Psychiatric Association’s Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The DSM-5 is a really important book. It is used by doctors and mental health care providers around the world to diagnose mental disorders.
The DSM-5 explicitly and clearly recognizes asexuality, and says that if a person is asexual, that they should not be diagnosed with Female Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder or Male Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder.
This book says that you are valid, your feelings are real, and that you do not have a disorder because you feel this way.
They do not know what they are talking about. You can point them at this book as proof that they are wrong.
Full Reference:
On page 434, in the section on Female Sexual Interest/Arousal Disorder (302.72), at the end of the “Diagnostic Features”, it reads:
If a lifelong lack of sexual desire is better explained by one’s self-identification as “asexual”, then a diagnosis of female sexual interest/arousal disorder would not be made.
On page 443, in the section on Male Hypoactive Sexual Desire Disorder (302.71), at the end of the “Differential Diagnosis”, it reads:
If the man’s low desire is explained by self-identification as an asexual, then a diagnosis of male hypoactive sexual desire disorder is not made.
Being recognized by mainstream psychology, which often overlooks marginalized groups, is fantastic.
