This is so ridiculous! Our system is beyond broken. If you're sick you almost have to scrape by before Medicaid limit or pay out the ass and have excellent job with very good insurance. It's so fucked up. This is truly nutty.
A lesson I learned the hard way is the only way you can tell what your insurance actually covers is to read the fine print. The insurance company service reps can't be relied upon and the medical office reps just make up an answer if they don't know. Nor can you be sure the coverage statement from the insurance company is right wen they finally send it. That's wrong a significant percent of the time too.
Hypothetically, in an emergency situation, you could get fish antibiotics from your local pet store. Not the best idea but an untreated infection isn't good either.
This sentence is so American, it started to look for oil.
Real life dystopia shit.
To anyone considering this, just remember that there is a reason that the FDA exists. Fish antibiotics aren't FDA regulated, so you really have no idea what you're taking and how much.
Have you try other online services (no insurance need) like GoodRX care? I don’t see you need 16 or older for UTI in their options.
do get it treated OP, however one does that in that joke of a country you're unfortunate enough to live in. Do know that unlike female UTIs which are relatively common and often uncomplicated if treated, male UTIs are not common and CAN herald some other underlying pathologies (such as urinary stones, blockages, anatomical problems etc) which should be properly investigated. So do go see a doctor if you're able to.
I'm actually surprised that the CVS provider still offered to treat him, for this exact reason. I'm a trans guy who went through a bout of recurring UTIs during the height of the pandemic. For all medical purposes I could have been treated the same as any cis woman, but actually accessing the virtual-only care that's readily available to cis women was a trial for me because the systems are set up to filter out men.
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Man that is bad. And I must say there are more countries moving that way. You can get cheaper insurance but then you need to go to the connected health institutes and otherwise they won't pay. Fuck that, I want to choose where I get my care. I don't want health insurance providers to have a say in how my doctor treats me (but they do, unfortunately).
You need to prove that you have a urinary tract let alone the infection. Show them your urinary tract! /s
So wtf, they want you to let it get worse until that infection spreads to kidneys or something and then pay 100x the amount to an emergency room? How does that make sense for their profits anyway?
Treatment is just a test to confirm and some antibiotics I think. Hope you can find some other way to get treated.
It’s painful to read stories like this. I really feel for all the people who can’t afford to see a doctor whenever they need it.
I live in Spain and here we have a social security network paid by the people through taxes. It has its flaws, as probably everything has, but we have people here saying that it doesn’t work and we’d be better paying for private insurances to get better attention and pay less taxes.
The thing is that today a private insurance can cost 50-100€ per person, something completly affordable, but what the people saying this doesn’t take into account is that the private companies have a backup with the national health service. The private insurance is great for small things, seeing your physician, a small surgery… but if you have a serious problem they’ll send you to the national health service to be treated.
I hope you can have a proper treatment for your illness and that it doesn’t cost you an arm and a leg. I also hope that your country can find a way to help everyone equally and not just those who can afford it.
I think most everyone knows this would have to be in the USA.
Sorry OP, I really hope those greedy assholes just made some shitty mistake.
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