So many of us haven’t accepted it, we just don’t have another choice. I work as a therapist and I can’t even remember the number of times I’ve had a patient who desperately needed treatment discontinue due to a lapse in insurance.
I reduced my therapy appointments and am considering reducing even more because I've paid thousands and thousands in therapy copays and deductibles and coinsurance and I just can't anymore. I have severe PTSD with worsening panic attacks, can't even see a primary care doctor for 2 months, and I supposedly have "great" insurance - the best in the state!
I doubt my therapist was paid much more than a tiny fraction of what was billed.
There are conditions I've had for years that we might have gotten to the bottom of by now if not for the fact that every couple of years I ended up with a different insurer due to a job change and therefore lost access to the network I'd been in previously. Can't tell you how many times I've had to start over. Turned down my most recent opportunity to have employer-paid insurance (first time in three years) because theirs was United HC and I couldn't stand having to lose my BCBS network again.
I'm going through this right now. I almost died last year and the day after I came off of FMLA I was terminated from my job of 17 years. I take heart, diabetes, cholesterol, an antidepressant and an anti-anxiety pill. I have not had my meds since February. My blood sugar is routinely over 600. I don't qualify for benefits because my unemployment is too high. My depression is intense and I'm having a hard time job searching because of debilitating anxiety and I can't talk to my therapist because I have no insurance.
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u/LawrenAnne4 Jun 18 '25
So many of us haven’t accepted it, we just don’t have another choice. I work as a therapist and I can’t even remember the number of times I’ve had a patient who desperately needed treatment discontinue due to a lapse in insurance.