Hello my fellow pcos girlies and everyone else who decides to read this blog. My name is Gia (duh) and I don't really think a formal introduction is necessary. You'll get to know me as we move along and this isn't one of those icebreakers they forced us to do in school when all we desperately wanted to do was get to know each other less. I originally started writing this journal entry in november 2023, although it hadn't been the first time our healthcare system had failed me, it surely wouldn't be the last. I was no longer employed because a few months prior I decided quitting was the best thing I could do for mental health (we'll get more into that later). This resulted in me having to rely on the american welfare system and if you've ever navigated even one facet of this glorious system then you know that it's about to get worse before it gets better.
I was placed into a medicaid program (information I did not know at the time of sign up) that was limited to only emergency care. Yeah, you read that correctly. This was January of 2023. I spend several months not really understanding why I kept making appointments to see doctors and then recieving calls saying they didn't accept my insurance. But I was so confused, what do you mean you don't take my insurance? Your profile says you take medicaid, you're on the medicaid appointment portal...am I missing something? After several months of this process, I finally decided to go to the source and medicaid directly what was going on because maybe 1 or 2 providers weren't accepting new patients and that was something I could understand but by May of that year, I had attempted to see 23 different doctors, all without any success.
So I call medicaid, and after 90 minutes of hold music, I get a human on the phone who proceeds to spend the entire 4 minutes and 32 seconds of this phone call telling me that I am just booking with doctors who don't take medicaid. I was furious, but I bit my tongue and just told her to have a good day and then proceeded to scream when we finally got disconnected. I probably had about 4 more of these same exact phone calls until someone finally tells me that I have limited access medicaid and that I can change it but only during open enrollment. *big sigh* This meant waiting until November 1st 2023, or so I thought...
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