Reply #37: insurance will cover it if you have a cataract [View All]

[amazona]

My surgeon searched each eye very carefully for even the smallest of cataracts but I didn't have one, so had to pay for the procedure myself. I think it's a bit fraudulent to consider it cosmetic -- it isn't, it is restoring your eye to normal function -- but insurance companies are thieves, what else is new.

Older people will have better luck finding tiny cataracts, I suppose, but I advise getting it done as soon as your eye is stable (in your early 20s) if you can. I never realized what a hassle glasses/contacts were until I didn't have to bother with them any more.

Now they need to invent something that works on progressive conditions like age-related farsightedness. But reading glasses are better than bifocals or trifocals any day of the week!