#not even half of my insurance saga I swear to god

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Keep reading posts about US healthcare news while "Critical Care" plays in the background, which reminds me I have to pick which company is gonna gauge me for coverage next year while denying every claim I submit

[firelord-frowny]

uuugggGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

here, have an annoying invisalign saga:

So, like a year and a half ago i let my mom peer pressure me into getting invisalign. i was mega Not Glad about it because it was gonna cost something like 4 thousand dollars. My mom put in the 1 thousand dollar down payment, and then her insurance was gonna cover 2 thousand-ish, and i was stuck with the remaining thousand. i think. 

we had asked the orthodontist before beginning the process how much more expensive it was gonna get after i could no longer be on my mom’s insurance once i turned 26. he was like, “oh, don’t you worry about that. i’m not going to charge you anything more than what we’ve agreed on today. i’ll honor the agreement even after the insurance runs out.” and we were like, sweet!

blah blah blah, months go by, and i get to like the 15th set of aligners out of 30. 

then the plague strikes. 

then i fucking turn 26 and the orthodontist office is acting like the doctor never said what he said about not charging me more than we’d agreed on. 

THEN I somehow LOSE the last 3 aligners out of the 30! and given that I’ve been trying to avoid having to actually go to the office on account of The Plague, and that I’m not in a position to shell out the probably 300 bucks it will cost to replace the last 3 aligners, i’ve been just keeping the 27th aligner in my mouth for like the past two months lmfao so that my teeth don’t shift back to a less-straight configuration. 

BUT I SOMEHOW JUST LOST MY BOTTOM SET!! Literally, I took the aligners out and set them on my bed so i could eat some oreos, and then the bottom one just VANISHED. ive looked everywhere and i swear to god that motherfucker is probably in the same location that my last 3 sets disappeared to. 

so now I have to Actually Call the office :( :( and Actually Make An Appointment to go in and get my last 3 aligners replaced. :( :( :( :( :( 

i don’t wanna do that at all but like wow i did not get pressured into spending so much fucking money on this shit just for all the work to be undone because i lost a damn aligner. 

and the office, as far as i know, is still only allowing one patient in at a time and are using hella strict protocols to keep a covid-free environment soooo. i guess it’ll be fine. :/