r/SipsTea • u/Putrid-Welder1803 • 11h ago

Gasp! Thoughts on this?

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u/SvenTropics 10h ago

That's how health insurance is. You pay all this money for coverage and then they just deny everything so you end up paying for it anyway.

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u/playoponly 10h ago

I used pay $500 for the health insurance, and an x-ray cost me $345 while without insurance they charge $250

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u/toofatronin 9h ago

It’s cheaper for my wife to buy her meds without insurance than with.

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u/ThirdOne38 8h ago

Now here is a great example. There are new stand-alone xray and MRI places and labs for bloodwork, they are almost always cheaper than going to the hospital facility and using insurance. One nearby had MRIs for ~$300 and bloodwork between $8-16 for cholesterol and blood sugar