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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago

oh. go get a therapist--not physical; mental. they're insanely expensive, but you can spend the next three months shopping around and by the new year you'll have found someone you like!

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[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Get your ears cleaned at an ent. Go to a dermatologist and get a facial. Go to a pediatrist and get a mani/pedi.

Really sucks that dental doesn’t count as medical.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

Get my ears cleaned by an ent?

I’m so soryy. I couldn’t resist.

~I’ll~see~myself~to~the~door~

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Why does it look like the Ent is feeding him πŸ˜‚

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago

First it clean their hear then it feeds them their smuck

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

Knee brace.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 months ago

Colonoscopy

[–] [email protected] 0 points 3 months ago

Not a medical procedure, but take the time to reevaluate your medical plan before open enrollment! Look at the cheaper plans and see how much you'd save in premiums. It might be greater than the difference in max out of pocket. And if you get a qualified "high deductible" plan you can even contribute the savings to an HSA that you get to rollover and keep forever into retirement, without ever paying taxes on it.

[–] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago

I'd double- and triple-check the small print.
They'll find a way to still charge you.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

My health insurance denied covering my vasectomy so i put it off. Later that year i was in an accident and hit my max out of pocket pretty quick. I called up my doctor and had them resubmit the preauthorization. got it covered at 100%

I'm still pretty pissed that sterilization for women is covered at 100% under my plan but not for men. (It should be both 100% imo)

[–] [email protected] 9 points 3 months ago

It goes the opposite way for wanting to reproduce, too. That is, myself and my wife decided we would try to start a family, and she's apparently fine, but something isn't working on my side of things. (Her doc even said "Don't worry about it, men tend to be an easy fix.")

There's a million programs and special coverages and stuff for women's fertility, but all I asked is "Hey can we just diagnose what's wrong with me? I don't want super-swimmer-syrum or something I just wanna know."

They refuse to consider it urology or any kind of "men's health", and keep wanting to rule as "fertility treatment" which conveniently isn't covered.

Men's reproductive rights aren't even on the radar.

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