Well guys, I'm looking at $30,000.00 worth of dental reconstruction, and my dental insurance covers $1,500 per year per person, period. I'm trying to see if my health insurance will help pay because this is so extensive my entire health is affected. But I'm not getting much help here, so I sincerely doubt that if they won't cover me when I'm on a mostly liquid diet, in face pain, have swelling, ear problems, and infections,... I wouldn't hold out much hope for them helping with a few extractions.
There are so many injustices with the whole insurance system and how it works, and what it covers.
They will pay for us when we're sick and dying, they'll pay for years of prescription drugs, they'll pay for ongoing treatment and especially they'll pay tens of thousands of dollars for surgical interventions, especially if they hold promise of having to be repeated, but you know, there's nothing in it for people trying to stay healthy and responsible and strong,....you know, the PREVENTATIVE STUFF! The stuff that, IF we do it, will be more cost-effective for them, produce greater profits for them, provide less pay out on their part,... seems to make sense, doesn't it?
But it's in the best interest of the medical community to "treat" not to "cure." The reason for this is that through "treating," the very nature requires repeat care and ongoing costs. To provide a "cure" would mean they've lost control and have no guarantee for income.
As long as we're sick and in need of help, we'll keep coming back. But get us all fixed up or educate us to tend to ourselves, and they've lost the niche.
It bites, eh?
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