My family health insurance doesn’t cover some..no make that lots, of the things that my doctor tells me I need. Yes, they cover my medication. Well, my prescription medication. Now that one of the meds I take is over the counter (and I h*have* to have it) my insurance doesn’t cover it. Nor does my family health insurance cover the pillows, filters, special vacuum, and covers that I’m supposed to use. Yowza. Let’s not even talk about alternative therapies that are reported to help allergy and asthma sufferers like yoga. No chance at all that I could get a partial payment on that. I have been told that it is theoretically possible to get a portion of chiropractic care covered, but the amount is very tiny and the amount of hassle is very huge. Kind of depressing. I mean, they are ok with drugging me but not with more natural remedies..odd.
Part of me really hopes all of these health plan reforms that are floating around will help people get better preventative cares (yeah, not a lot of preventing for allergies) and more natural options. If money were less of an object what types of allergy remedies would you want to try?
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Mon, Aug 31, 2009
Allergy Remedies