• ramenshaman@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    From my experience it depends on which health care provider you have. I have Kaiser and some things are pretty quick, some things aren’t. I used to be on Covered California aka the ACA and things were a lot slower. Seems like, generally, the more money you pay in premiums the faster service you can get.

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      6 days ago

      Kaiser

      Maybe it could also be related to the difference between an HMO and normal insurance?

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        6 days ago

        kaiser is so-so, but not great, they are just all doctors in one building type of deal. i had a pretty bad experience with a Kaiser ENT, deliberately ignored my concerns because he got MAD , apparently i was supposed to do only phone appointments and he felt like i waste my time according to him, and he vented his anger on the poor nurse that was in the area/ or the one that put me in the room. then he started laughing me out of the room because of that(i was having pretty frequent nosebleeds). when i switched ENT they found the cause of it(and i did have deviated septum as well, but that was apparently the source of his anger, because doctors do not like to hear patients mention procedures/surgery).

        also KAIser tends to be expensive as well, thats why some employers arnt willing to pay for it.