Microblog Memes

I hope I'm part of a pneumatic delivery system! Like human centipede, but bidirectional.

That's true for literally everything in your body.

It's the reason why health care can't be capitalist.

For dental, at least, it's because there are two ways to treat issues with your teeth: extract them or repair them.

If you go to the emergency room with tooth pain because of some cavity that gets infected, a doctor there can and will extract it. And your insurance will cover this as a medical expense (unless the doctor was an actual dentist and charges as such). That's also why wisdom tooth extraction is often covered by medical insurance.

But if you want to preserve that tooth, you need a dentist, with specialized skills and tools, which are far more expensive.

Insurance companies get away with not paying for dental work because "technically" you don't need your teeth to eat, and "technically" you don't need all of them to chew, and "technically" you can be perfectly healthy without any teeth at all. QED, they argue trying to save your teeth is a cosmetic expense.

And they got away with that reasoning. And they still do.

You can get teeth online, too. Even if they're not the highest quality, they usually still have a reasonable amount of flavor left on them.

If I go to the doctor and they say you need to take those medicine, then yes, it does.

Anecdotally I just went for the eye and contact exam that was covered, took my prescription to Eyebuydirect, and in the last year I bought 3 pairs of glasses from them for less than $150 (2 in one transaction, one in another).They aren't crap quality and their in house, i.e. not name brand, frames are pretty cheap and good looking.

I am not a sponsored corporate shill, but so far I have nothing bad to say about them.

That's actually who I had my insurance reimburse me through for the frames lol.

There were a couple other decent sites but I found my look on there the best.

Unfortunately my head is gigantic, both metaphorically and literally so finding wide enough glasses is a pain. Been getting the usual post frame change headaches with both XL pairs.

Yeah myself and several people I know haven't been in more years than I'd like to say. When their estimates are more than $15k you decide to wait a bit longer.

And it has greatly improved British teeth. The old stereotype of bad British teeth was because of how things were before the NHS. My English father's teeth were so bad that he ended up having to go to Costa Rica to get the surgery done because it would have cost $10,000 in the U.S. out of pocket. He was born in 1931, so the NHS didn't even exist until he was 17, but he always considered it the greatest accomplishment that Britain had achieved (my father was also a die-hard socialist who bragged about how he booed Churchill when Churchill visited his high school). He'd be pretty appalled at the state of it now.

I believe they mean hearing aids. At least many of them are OTC now.