At least I got them to chuckle when I said, "With the rate I'm going do I get like a stamp card and the 5th diagnosis free?"
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Ironically, when I lived in a city famed for it's access to mental health services, I struggled to find mental health professionals that were easy to schedule with and weren't some variation of "spiritual" hippie-ass crystal-gazing whackadoos, and now that I live in a rural area famed for its lack of access to mental health professionals I have had two different therapists who are amazing (who don't promote any sort of spiritual whackadoo nonsense, I couldn't even tell you if either of them was religious of spiritual in any way because they never bring it up), are easy to schedule with, and a psychiatrist who is amazing and easy to schedule with.
Who'd have thunk it? I sure wouldn't have. I genuinely expected it to be the other way around. I still hate living in this rural right-wing hellscape, but at least I'm getting good mental health treatment, so I've got that going for me.
Dodging the spiritual whackadoos was pretty easy in my area, finding one that took my insurance and was taking new patients on the other hand was like trying to find a needle in a haystack.
That in and of itself took months then my insurance changed because my work felt they could get a better deal elsewhere and the search had to start all over again.
That sucks so hard, and I feel like it's an issue that isn't discussed enough when it comes to discussing insurance and why universal healthcare is a much better solution, as it removes such roadblocks to care.
I remember some of the big arguments Republicans have trotted out over the years regarding health insurance is the canard "you should be able to keep your current insurer" when new healthcare laws take effect. I remember that being a "selling point" of the ACA, and I remember conservative cranks like the CATO Institute calling it "a lie." (Please excuse the CATO Institute link, they're a shitbird right wing think-tank, but it was the first link that I could find from that time that substantiated the oft-repeated "If you like your current health-care plan, you can keep it," regarding the ACA)
Yet... who the fuck actually gets to choose their own insurance when the insurance they get is dictated by the job they work at, and their insurance changes when they change jobs, or changes when the business owners do as yours did, and decide "they can get a better deal elsewhere?" Almost nobody, it was nothing but a canard promoted as something to argue about that impacted a negligible part of the populace since the majority of working people get their insurance through their workplace and don't choose their insurance individually outside of the workplace.
Hell with universal single payer healthcare coming in, you'd just need to require current practitioners to accept the insurance as it gets phased in and people could keep their doctor they have before the roll out.
I'd love to get some of that sweet sweet affordable healthcare and not have to worry about how I'm gonna pay for it, if the specific doctor I see at the clinic takes my insurance, if they do a blood test if that person takes my insurance, etc, etc.
Last year I went to the ER for severe chest pains and numbness shooting down my arm, turns out it wasn't anything serious, then had to deal with my insurance basically going "Well it wasn't life threatening so here's what's left to pay on your bill," (literally close to $2k and sent to me 5 months later (made using my FSA account a bitch BTW) as separate bills for every person who saw me) rather than if it was life threatening in which case they would have covered all of it except a $500 "ER fee"
FML I hate United Heath Care.
God, dealing with health insurance is such a living hell. It always reminds me of that woman who got her face ripped off by a bear, and when asked what the worst part of the experience was, she replied "dealing with health insurance." Not getting her face torn off by a bear, not the surgeries and uncertainty of getting it sewn back on, nope. Health insurance.
I am so sorry you've had to go through all that and that you don't have more compassionate health insurance. I really hope that changes for you at some point and you're able to get something better, at the very least.