I realize health care is expensive - I totally do. However, I just got the bill in for my annual woman exam and am shocked. Do you know how much it costs just for an annual exam? It's great to push preventative care, but don't you think affordable care would be a great option, too?!
So here's my breakdown: vaginal tray: 6.42, Pap Smear: 144.17, Pap Smear Handling Fee: 51.21, the office visit itself: 180.98! So that would total 382.78!
That's insane, when you think families struggle to pay for food now and yet something that is pretty important is totally out of the question unless you have good insurance. (I'm really glad we do, because all I need to cover is the $15 copay) Seriously, I could have walked my swabs to the lab to save them 50 to transfer them on a cart down 2 floors.
6.24.2008
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And yet it's surprising that the poor are so unhealthy. It's because they're dirty and stupid and negligent, right?
When I was in undergrad GAC had a deal with Planned Parenthood where students could get their exam at the student health and a full year of birth control pills for like $30. (So that's what poor people usually do, provided the fundies haven't tricked them into going to crisis pregnancy centers or chased all the PP clinics away.) However, the first time that you went in for birth control you had to actually visit the Planned Parenthood to get a talk about birth control options and std prevention, which is good. We also had a reproductive health section in biology 101, which was apparently necessary to remedy the fact that MN schools are terrible at providing this information. I knew what all the different birth control methods were because WI schools are better, and all the other girls in the class acted like I was a huge slut.
Pap Smear "handling" fee?? Fifty bucks to take it to the lab, which they already want $150 for?
That IS ridiculous. I haven't gotten any bills from my annual exam yet, but my insurance will cover it all so I'm glad I don't have to worry about that. I wonder what they'll charge me for the office visit itself... considering it took all of 15 minutes for her to poke me, prod me, swab me, and send me on my way.
Seriously, I could have walked my swabs to the lab to save them 50 to transfer them on a cart down 2 floors.
God Lise, that made me laugh SO HARD.
It's so ridiculous that it is funny!!! Yeah, and the appointment probably was shorter then the time I waited in the waiting room. Have you ever seen like a 400lber sitting in the waiting room and just kind of think how lucky you are to not have to swab that one out?! I know that's not nice, but seriously, that's just totally gross!
Have you ever seen like a 400lber sitting in the waiting room and just kind of think how lucky you are to not have to swab that one out?!
Now I need to bleach my brain.
Sorry - never fails though! Every time I am there someone makes me super happy I never had an inkling to become a gyno!
Be glad you don't have to live in that 400 pound body either. Those are human beings with the same feelings and thoughts as everyone else.
LOL, np Lise. I'd just never thought of it that way before.
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