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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWhy do hard working middle class people want to eliminate "wellness care?"
Do they know what it is?
Do they know who made it mandatory and that there is NO cost for it if you have any health insurance?
Do they know who is going to take it away from them?
Same question for preexisting condition clauses, why do they want them back?
JI7
(89,252 posts)Than anyone with less than them. Even though they are one job loss, one illness etc away from being in the same situation.
in many cases they are too worried about certain people taking away from them.
MineralMan
(146,317 posts)The only time this 71-year-old man normally sees my primary care doctor is once a year for my Medicare wellness exam. If I feel ill or have a health issue in the interim, I make an appointment to address that, but such a thing is very rare for me.
At the wellness exam, my meds are reviewed and adjusted, based on the tests that are done at that time. I have a conversation with my primary care doctor and he does a pretty cursory physical exam. Blood is drawn for an extensive series of blood tests and I do an occult blood stool sample test.
Then, I get my prescriptions for a year and go about my business. If something comes up during the year, I go in and see him to deal with that. Last year, I had a cellulitis that needed some antibiotics, so I went in. Mostly, though, I only see him once a year.
oldtime dfl_er
(6,931 posts)This doesn't relate specifically to your question, but rather it's a general observation. Many people don't feel like "their" insurance should go to pay for other peoples' health care. They have no concept of what insurance is about or how it works. They don't understand that one day, when THEY get sick, other peoples' premiums will help keep their costs down.
Freddie
(9,267 posts)And can't fathom that many people don't. And typical Repugs, they have no concept unless it directly happens to them.
Horse with no Name
(33,956 posts)They don't know what copays and coinsurance and deductibles and out of pocket maximums are.
When given the choice, the insurance illiterate will always choose the cheap policy--looking only at premium cost without taking into consideration prescription copays vs. medical office copays vs. hospital copays vs. radiology copays vs. lab copays.
They will buy a cheap policy and then complain that they can't afford to use it.
I've had serious health conditions for many years. I can tear apart a policy in 10 minutes and figure out if it will serve my needs based on my health history.
In the case of insurance, cheaper premiums aren't always cheap. Not everyone understands that.
HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)to see if employees are predisposed to let's say Breast Cancer? Have your premiums increased as a "pre-existing" condition? Recommend a a Mastectomy to prevent cancer? Who else would have access to your DNA? If you refuse genetic testing, increase your premiums?
Ever have a Workplace Wellness Program? They are extremely intrusive. I'm not even talking about the mandatory blood tests (JW's objected to that), H/W Measurements (for obese size 0's?), Gym Memberships for staff who pushed around wheelchairs and lifted 150 lb. teenagers all day, etc.
How about asking under 30 staff, and their spouses, if they were planning on having their first child soon since it was healthier to have children YOUNG. Telling staff when to have children is part of a "Health Plan"? "Does the Wellness Program offer a Dating Service since I'm not seeing anyone right now". "Does the Wellness Program offer IVF treatments for Lesbians?" Two of my coworkers wrote this on their Questionnaire. Why don't employees like Wellness Programs?
After my own experience with an Employee Wellness Program, it doesn't surprise me that Genetic Testing, and all the Civil Rights ramifications, would be next.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2017/03/11/employees-who-decline-genetic-testing-could-face-penalities-under-proposed-bill/?utm_term=.8d4aac11ca00
Bill sponsored by a Republican and opposed by Democrats. You cannot see WHY?
kydo
(2,679 posts)And they can't stand that thought. Even though it has nothing to do with that, they are a special kind of extra stupid.
greymattermom
(5,754 posts)and walk away with Z pack prescriptions. Should that be covered? Just asking.
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)You choose to point out the RARE statistically speaking situation so as to advocate for health insurance company exec profits?
weird
Without googling, do you know what wellness care is? Who made it possible for you? What the costs are to you?
p.s. your response makes me want to run screaming into a brick wall, head first.
Cosmocat
(14,565 posts)nm