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My own office visit cost went up by 15 dollars and all the usual diagnostics went up over 30%.

My scrips also went up by about 40% each.

Thanks Obiteme!

I can’t say for certain Obamacare is to blame but right after it passed my insurance, which had never given me any problems started not wanting to cover one of my prescriptions (they kept pressuring me to try a different medication since the one I use does not come in a generic and is more expensive —I pay more for it but I’m sure they do too). I fought with them over it and finally won, but it was a tedious process in which I had to drag my doctor in and ended up without my medication for several days. I’m sure it is a cost cutting thing due to concerns they have over the new law.

Second, they have dropped one of my doctors from their network. My doctor doesn’t know why, he was simply told there were too many in his particular specialty in our area. What? Why would that matter? I suspect he runs too many tests, but who knows. All I know is I now have to pay out of network for him, so that while I pay for insurance I’m not really getting the full benefit of having it. Drat.

I really preferred the olden days in which my insurance company wasn’t in the business of choosing my medications or doctors and simply paid a percentage of my costs after I reached a deductible. I HATE HMO’s etc. And of course why do we have them? Govt intervention in the system if I recall.