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Several issues.
Some doctors/med facilities are open, or only for whatever they consider emergencies. You may have to travel for a doctor or facility that's open and accepting you for your needs. Maybe even overnight, somewhere, and the staying-with-family-or-friends option is maybe out.
Some now require a negative test - or at least a test, either prior to or at the time of "service". Sometimes they want a particular type of test. My state requires a no-more-than-72-hour-before-return negative before you can come back. Is that test free? Who pays? You don't leave Seattle to come back flying without a 72-hour-negative test. In some places, they aren't getting test results back that fast. It varies.
You may have to travel, some kinds of which is at more risk than others. Travel isn't as safe as staying home.
You might get the "2-week-quarantine" thing. If you aren't at home, or can't get there in the "approved" fashion, it can be expensive to stay in an "approved" fashion, away from home. A couple of friends got caught by that rule.
My insurance, for one, has an "in-network" medivac. Or you get "balance billing", and medivac is insanely expensive. ($19,000 from Alaska to Seattle on a jet, $20,000 for the half-an-hour flight on the helo from my town to Anchorage). How much is "balance billing?" Yeah, I said insane.)
What will Medicare and Insurance pay for? Boy, getting answers to that can be hard or lengthy.
When this pandemic "ends", I expect there to be long lines for "non-essential" medical services. Some of our doctors and nurses are incapacitated or even dead. Some are going to need recovery time off.
I and others in my group (thousands) just ran into this, headlong.
As if we needed more problems. Please. I'm not saying you will run into these, but think about it and check.
Stay safe and God Bless.
Some doctors/med facilities are open, or only for whatever they consider emergencies. You may have to travel for a doctor or facility that's open and accepting you for your needs. Maybe even overnight, somewhere, and the staying-with-family-or-friends option is maybe out.
Some now require a negative test - or at least a test, either prior to or at the time of "service". Sometimes they want a particular type of test. My state requires a no-more-than-72-hour-before-return negative before you can come back. Is that test free? Who pays? You don't leave Seattle to come back flying without a 72-hour-negative test. In some places, they aren't getting test results back that fast. It varies.
You may have to travel, some kinds of which is at more risk than others. Travel isn't as safe as staying home.
You might get the "2-week-quarantine" thing. If you aren't at home, or can't get there in the "approved" fashion, it can be expensive to stay in an "approved" fashion, away from home. A couple of friends got caught by that rule.
My insurance, for one, has an "in-network" medivac. Or you get "balance billing", and medivac is insanely expensive. ($19,000 from Alaska to Seattle on a jet, $20,000 for the half-an-hour flight on the helo from my town to Anchorage). How much is "balance billing?" Yeah, I said insane.)
What will Medicare and Insurance pay for? Boy, getting answers to that can be hard or lengthy.
When this pandemic "ends", I expect there to be long lines for "non-essential" medical services. Some of our doctors and nurses are incapacitated or even dead. Some are going to need recovery time off.
I and others in my group (thousands) just ran into this, headlong.
As if we needed more problems. Please. I'm not saying you will run into these, but think about it and check.
Stay safe and God Bless.
And yes, the whole pandemic situation is that word and it's been that from the get-go. There is absolutely no excuse for the "leadership" shown during this whole fiasco. But this isn't a political forum so I won't even get started on that! Thanks for such an accurate and fitting description!
