{"id":6933,"date":"2010-12-01T10:00:46","date_gmt":"2010-12-01T16:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/?p=6933"},"modified":"2010-12-03T10:35:30","modified_gmt":"2010-12-03T16:35:30","slug":"our-health-care-system-is-whack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/casadeblundell.com\/jonathan\/our-health-care-system-is-whack\/","title":{"rendered":"Our health care system is whack"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I’ve never had too many dealings with doctors and health insurance.<\/p>\n

The last few years I’ve done my annual checkup\/physical every December and I may go see the doctor to get a prescription for a cold or something similar.<\/p>\n

And I’ve had several times where I was told by a dentist or doctor’s office that a procedure would be “covered” by my insurance, only to find out later that I would be paying out of pocket for the majority of the cost.<\/p>\n

But with the boys, I’m seeing a whole ‘nother side of the health care system.
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\nIt’s so automated and bureaucratic that it’ll drive even the most patient of men insane.<\/p>\n

We received notification this past week that several claims for Hayden while he was in the NICU would not be covered\/processed because there’s no patient named “BOYAALAUR BLUNDELL” on my policy.<\/p>\n

Really?!<\/p>\n

I hope there’s no patient named “BOYAALAUR” on my policy because that’s not my son’s name.<\/p>\n

What clear thinking person would submit a claim from the doctor’s office under the name “BOYAALAUR”? <\/p>\n

Oh that’s right — it probably wasn’t a clear thinking person, it was an automated machine.<\/p>\n

Perhaps if someone had taken the time to ask, they would have known from the moment they were born that our son’s names were Hayden and Ian — but who has the time for silly questions like that?<\/p>\n

And now we’re having to deal with the issue that the pediatric doctor that we’ve chosen for our boys — who’s listed on the website for our insurance company is not considered a PCP by the insurance company.<\/p>\n

And according to the doctor’s office, they’ve requested that change months ago and the insurance company simply hasn’t updated their system.<\/p>\n

And we go back and forth and back and forth.<\/p>\n

Sadly as frustrating as this may be to me, I realize these are probably minor inconveniences compared to what many others deal with.<\/p>\n

But it just continues to ring-in the idea to me that our health care system in America is out of whack.<\/p>\n

And no – I don’t think “Obamacare” will be the death blow to our system… or the savior of our system.<\/p>\n

But what we have isn’t working — and I don’t see any relief in the near future.<\/p>\n

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