The sorry ass state of US healthcare and MS care
I've been diagnosed with this disease for 10 years.
I have multiple sets of images. I have blood work going back a decade. I've been on half a dozen DMTs.
I know what works and what doesn't.
Why do I owe my new provider $250 to refuse to restart my medication after moving to a new state and starting a new job because I don't have current MRIs?
All he did was the exact same tests I've done with every other provider. Nothing new was learned. No treatment or care was provided.
Follow my finger, tell me when you feel the vibrating stop...
And now I owe him $250 so he can refuse to start my DMT until I shell out another $1300 for updated MRIs plus whatever the lab panel costs.
This country is a god damned scam. Doctors are crooks. Hospitals are crooks. Insurers are crooks.
Ironically even though they are the most demonized, the party that I'm least upset with is the pharmaceutical company because their medicine actually makes me feel better.
If the damn doctor would just start the medicine that I've been on for years my deductible and OOPM would be blown away and I could get all the stupid imaging he wants.
Sorry for this hatepost but I don't know where else to rant.