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Tl;dr: private insurance is not your friend & doesn’t care about you no matter how much you like them-a dispatch from family medicine. I had a patient come in today for something relatively mundane, a headache. No serious red flags. Straightforward from a medical standpoint 1/6
But her insurance. She had recently changed jobs and with it, her insurance changed. She thought it had already gone into effect with me as her provider. Turns out, I won’t be her covered provider until August 1st. She ended up paying out of pocket for the visit. 2/6
Luckily, this wasn’t something health or life threatening. Luckily she didn’t need a lot of tests. Luckily, she had something relatively easy to take care of. Others are not so lucky. 3/6
This scenario plays out dozens of times every year in my office. If it hasn’t happened to you yet, it will likely happen to you someday. 28% of people in the US “lose” their current insurance and are forced to change plans *every year* at the whim of their employers. 4/6
This is another reason why I favor single payer healthcare.
Imagine:
Changing jobs & keeping your healthcare
Losing your job & still being insured
Every doctor in every state on the plan-no network
Being covered from the moment of birth to the moment of death
5/6
To paraphrase John Lennon: it’s easy to imagine if you try. 6/6
Disgraceful
Every time you turn around you think you know your insurance. Then they go and stop paying for this or the government prefers they don't prescribe that, I'm really believing that not many types of insurance can be trusted for long.
Where this AWESOME Dr. has been my whole life???? 
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