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My first experience with medical care since Obamacare implementation.. (Vanity)
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Posted on 01/10/2014 6:31:12 PM PST by cableguymn

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To: cableguymn
You discovered an excellent ER. The rhetoric is that you should avoid the ER, but frankly I believe this to be a mistake, and that hospitals should massively enlarge their ERs if at all feasible.

On the other hand, there is an angry and vindictive part of me that sees all the abuse that hospitals and ERs receive…and I'd like to see those hospitals threaten to shut down their ERs entirely. They could, you know. You'd be surprised. There is no law that says a hospital has to have an ER.

Particularly for lawyers. They shouldn't be allowed to go to ERs or hospitals, at all.

21 posted on 01/10/2014 6:45:01 PM PST by Mamzelle
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To: Rome2000

If I tell you, you all will move here ;)

Fairview Hospitals. Wyoming MN.


22 posted on 01/10/2014 6:45:54 PM PST by cableguymn (It's time for a second political party.)
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Similar story here. I went into the ER over Christmas break with unbelievable head pain when I had the WORST flu ever. (Thought maybe I had meningitis)

Within 90 minutes I had a CT scan, complete bloodwork and relief from the head pain.

No meningitis, btw just an insanely bad headache that lasted days.

Incidentally, my hubby had his gall bladder out in August. Seemed incredibly painful ( the attack). Good luck to you!

23 posted on 01/10/2014 6:46:54 PM PST by riri (Plannedopolis-look it up. It's how the elites plan for US to live.)
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To: luckystarmom

Thankfully, our hospital is a one stop shop. Clinic, Urgent Care and Emergency all in one building.


24 posted on 01/10/2014 6:47:05 PM PST by cableguymn (It's time for a second political party.)
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My story (well, my hubby’s story):

On Monday, he called me at work and said he didn’t feel well and needed to go to the hospital. He has A-Fib. His heart was racing like crazy and he was dizzy and weak. I rushed him to the ER. He was taken in immediately and put on an IV drip to try to get the heart rate down. They did not ask for insurance info until he was settled and hooked up. He presented insurance cards (not O-care here either). After a relatively short time in the ER, he was transferred upstairs to a room where they kept him under observation overnight until he heartbeat was normal. They kept him two more days to get him acclimated to a medication that would control the A-Fib, and was released Thursday. The nurses were wonderful, so were the doctors - and everybody else there who we had contact with.

I wonder how long before this will be a thing of the past?


25 posted on 01/10/2014 6:47:30 PM PST by sneakers ( Quinn: "Liberty is the solution to the human condition.")
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To: Mamzelle

ER’s are closing in California if I am not mistaken.

As long as the law says you have to treat everyone that makes it to the door. ER’s will close if it costs the hospital to much.


26 posted on 01/10/2014 6:48:52 PM PST by cableguymn (It's time for a second political party.)
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If understand your post you had private insurance, perhaps through an employer, not a policy obtained through the Obamacare website. Those who managed to get a "qualifying" policy through the Obamacare website may not have such a good experience and may find they have no coverage, can't be treated at the hospital of their choice etc.

I also had chest pain last February that similarly caused me to go to the hospital ER. My private health care plan through my wife's employer paid almost 90% of the nearly $12,000 bill which included an overnight hospital stay and stress test in addition to my ER visit.

27 posted on 01/10/2014 6:48:55 PM PST by The Great RJ
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Ahh!!

Good for you, and good luck.

Looks like the population is about 8,000.

The people in the big cities are doomed.

28 posted on 01/10/2014 6:49:10 PM PST by Rome2000 (THE WASHINGTONIANS AND UNIVERSAL SUFFRAGE ARE THE ENEMY -ROTATE THE CAPITAL AMONGST THE STATES)
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To: The Great RJ

Correct, we are insured through U-Care.


29 posted on 01/10/2014 6:51:05 PM PST by cableguymn (It's time for a second political party.)
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To: Rome2000

yes, its thinly populated around here, but if you google around a bit, it’s not easy to find another ER (I live west of the hospital). I think the next closest one to me is Cambridge followed by Coon Rapids but that one is metro and known for “sit down and Helen Waite will see you..”

We are not far from the metro area. I bet by the time I am dead this area will be metro.


30 posted on 01/10/2014 6:54:31 PM PST by cableguymn (It's time for a second political party.)
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I have a friend in Georgia who just had surgery this week..

her operation was planned since last month..

she thought everything would be covered..

but when she got to the hospital she was told she could not have one of the necessary procedures because she was “too old” shes in her late 60s...not because it was dangerous due to her age but because of her age..

then she didn’t stay in hospital as long as she was suppose too..and is home already today...

and when she was getting her prescription filled when she left, she found out that she would now have too paid $200+ for one medicine that was previously free or not costly..a medicine she will need for the next few months as she recovers..

Since she had insurance and was already getting medical treatment for cancer before ObamaCare she did get a lot paid for but not what she should have..

My friend is a Conservative and when I talked to her on the phone today she said “ObamaCare”

When we had discussed last month about whether her insurance would still cover in January what she knew it to cover in Dec 2013..she was confident that it would..

this is a patriotic American lady who has worked her whole adult life and paid taxes and didn’t vote for Obama...

These Americans are the ones I am sad for ..the ones caught in this ghastly trap through no fault of their own..

the Obama voters called this down on themselves and unfortunately also my friend...

If my friend had that operation just last week it would have been different for her...


31 posted on 01/10/2014 6:59:41 PM PST by Tennessee Nana
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To: cableguymn

Google “gall bladder flush”. Follow the instructions. You can get rid of gallstones without losing your gall bladder. PM me if you need additional info.


32 posted on 01/10/2014 7:01:24 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (Truth is hate to those who hate the Truth)
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Gall bladder is pretty easy stuff these days with the golf ball retriever.

When I had mine yanked in ‘79, it was a bit more cutting.

Good luck, I never spent even 10 seconds missing mine after they took it out.


33 posted on 01/10/2014 7:05:50 PM PST by nascarnation (I'm hiring Jack Palladino to investigate Baraq's golf scores.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I was in our local Army Hospital yesterday picking up a prescription for my husband. I stopped and ssked to schedule an appointment for the optomotrist. She made an appointment for me for this morning. Appointment was right on time, very thorough exam, new glasses on order.
Sorry about the spelling. My eyes are still dilated.


34 posted on 01/10/2014 7:23:00 PM PST by ArmyTeach ( Videteco eos prius (See 'em first) Sculpin 191)
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The military system and the veterans affairs system aren’t the same, in any way, shape or form.


35 posted on 01/10/2014 7:30:59 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet (Jealousy is when you count someone else's blessings instead of your own.)
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I took my elderly mother to see an internist last week — first appointment with him in over a year. I was really surprised she wasn’t asked to fill out any of the new paperwork or even asked the scripted questions. Just the normal diagnosis and prescription. In short, nothing changed from last time. They will bill the co-payment.


36 posted on 01/10/2014 7:34:09 PM PST by steve86 (Some things aren't really true but you wouldn't be half surprised if they were.)
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To: cableguymn

Whenever I make a co-pay I get a refund check back for that amount in a month. I have no idea why, but I don’t want to ask.


37 posted on 01/10/2014 7:35:36 PM PST by Kirkwood (Zombie Hunter)
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To: Tennessee Nana

Is your friend in Georgia on Medicare as would often be the case for a person in her late 60s? Curious whether she has a Medicare Advantage Plan or Medigap Plan, and Part D. Hard to make much sense of the anecdote without that info. Be interesting to know the denied procedure as well but I realize that is HIPAA material.


38 posted on 01/10/2014 7:45:48 PM PST by steve86 (Some things aren't really true but you wouldn't be half surprised if they were.)
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Do you have a secondary insurance policy?


39 posted on 01/10/2014 7:46:17 PM PST by steve86 (Some things aren't really true but you wouldn't be half surprised if they were.)
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If my friend had that operation just last week it would have been different for her...

Yes indeed: what a difference a week makes. I went through triple bypass surgery on Dec. 23rd, 2013.

40 posted on 01/10/2014 7:46:40 PM PST by Studebaker Hawk (These geeks are a dime-a-dozen. I'm looking for the man with the dimes. Freddy Blassy)
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