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Trip to ER might be costly
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<blockquote data-quote="&#039;Lord Brown&#039;s bidding&#039;" data-source="post: 1325709" data-attributes="member: 32753"><p>Dude, both your doctor as well as urgent care facilities most likely have strong pain medicines available, especially if located in a hospital or on a a hospital campus, as some of mine have been. They need such to stabilize patients in case something goes wrong. Also, especially in the city, wait times in the ER often average longer than those in an urgent care facility since most assume they must go to an ER, for the biases you and others have here, hence the ER has more people. Even once the back, out of the lobby, you will wait in a patient area on a gurney waiting to be seen.</p><p></p><p>Unlike you, I have regularly paid the hospital co-pay, either at the time of service or they have billed me later. I don't know if you are under a different supplement than I am but that co-pay has been that way since I've been on a UPS plan, with BCBS, Aetna, and United Healthcare (UHC).</p><p></p><p>Finally, you keep blaming "Teamcrap", not realizing they aren't "the plan"; BCBS is (for most of us; Aetna for a few). Neither the Teamsters nor even UPS specifically control what they offer, but just negotiate. That is why two contracts ago we were switched to UHC. UPS wasn't looking for another plan, rather BCBS of IL dropped us!</p><p></p><p>Be mad at Teamcare all you want, but we got a good deal out of this, and I suspect it will get better since Teamcare is now in a stronger position to negotiate with BCBS, Aetna, and the like.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="'Lord Brown's bidding', post: 1325709, member: 32753"] Dude, both your doctor as well as urgent care facilities most likely have strong pain medicines available, especially if located in a hospital or on a a hospital campus, as some of mine have been. They need such to stabilize patients in case something goes wrong. Also, especially in the city, wait times in the ER often average longer than those in an urgent care facility since most assume they must go to an ER, for the biases you and others have here, hence the ER has more people. Even once the back, out of the lobby, you will wait in a patient area on a gurney waiting to be seen. Unlike you, I have regularly paid the hospital co-pay, either at the time of service or they have billed me later. I don't know if you are under a different supplement than I am but that co-pay has been that way since I've been on a UPS plan, with BCBS, Aetna, and United Healthcare (UHC). Finally, you keep blaming "Teamcrap", not realizing they aren't "the plan"; BCBS is (for most of us; Aetna for a few). Neither the Teamsters nor even UPS specifically control what they offer, but just negotiate. That is why two contracts ago we were switched to UHC. UPS wasn't looking for another plan, rather BCBS of IL dropped us! Be mad at Teamcare all you want, but we got a good deal out of this, and I suspect it will get better since Teamcare is now in a stronger position to negotiate with BCBS, Aetna, and the like. [/QUOTE]
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