Wow, this really made me feel crummier than I do already. I have been seeing a therapist for a couple of months. I got several free visits through our EAP at work. Before my ACA-sponsored health insurance plan bites the dust yet again at the end of December, I was able to squeeze in one more appointment. My therapist kept expressing surprise that my copay will be $60. "Oh my! I've never heard of one that high before." Jesus, lady, why don't you rub it in?
Worse yet, if I stay on the exchange, my copay will be $90. The clinic I'm going to won't bypass the insurance system and let me just pay up front. So it looks like I have to switch to one of the crummy cheapo plans at work. The reason I was ON the freaking exchange to begin with was because the plans at work stink unless you pay nearly $500 a month.
I like Obama, and I will miss him, but I am sorely disappointed in how the insurance companies ran with this ACA thing and made it the Unaffordable Care Act. I miss the HMO I had with my last employer. We never paid for anything, except an occasional $15 copay.
Sorry. I just had to get this off my chest.