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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe days of full covid coverage are over.
The days of full covid coverage are over. Insurers are restoring deductibles and co-pays, leaving patients with big bills.Large insurance companies waived cost-sharing for coronavirus care in 2020, but it has sprung back in 2021
Jamie Azar left a rehab hospital in Tennessee this week with the help of a walker after spending the entire month of August in the ICU and on a ventilator. She had received a shot of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine in mid-July but tested positive for the coronavirus within 11 days and nearly died.
Now Azar, who earns about $36,000 a year as the director of a preschool at a Baptist church in Georgia, is facing thousands of dollars in medical expenses that she cant afford.
Im very thankful to be home. I am still weak. And Im just waiting for the bills to come in to know what to do with them, she said Wednesday, after returning home.
In 2020, as the pandemic took hold, U.S. health insurance companies declared they would cover 100 percent of the costs for covid treatment, waiving co-pays and expensive deductibles for hospital stays that frequently range into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/09/18/covid-hospital-bills-insurance-deductible/
Fullduplexxx
(7,857 posts)Walleye
(31,008 posts)DURHAM D
(32,609 posts)Forget how many weeks for the J & J.
Fullduplexxx
(7,857 posts)It makes the vaccine look bad and gives them "case" to point to and say seee.
Walleye
(31,008 posts)But mainly because there are so many dishonest people in this country now, that think its fine to lie because theyve got god on their side or something. And apparently there are no consequences for lying with impunity about a life or death public health matter.
Midnight Writer
(21,745 posts)democrattotheend
(11,605 posts)At least that's how they do it at a friend's hospital. People who are treated for COVID who have had only one shot or had their second shot within the last 14 days are counted as unvaccinated.
jimfields33
(15,769 posts)I believe this story. If it was a month later maybe suspicious.
sarisataka
(18,600 posts)I have known several people who have had covid after being vaccinated, one of them being my wife. All of them had the misfortune of getting it soon after receiving the vaccine.
central scrutinizer
(11,648 posts)In Oregon, your vaccinations are logged into a data base. When I went in for my wellness exam in April, I had my vaxx card ready but my doctor already knew Id had both Pfizer shots.