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I wonder if there is anyway of approaching this problem through the health insurance lobbies.
It is now going to cost far more money to treat people as they contiue to see duck after duck for their entire undiagnosed lives? Even now most Lymies have seen many specialists before finally getting appropriate treatment.
The cost of ABX is realtively small compared with the cost of duck visits and multiple tests. And more people are handling more of the costs of their meds. than they are visits to ducks.
Just a thought....
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Aniek
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Unfortunately, there are many signs that the insurance companies are more likely to support the new guidelines.
Insurance companies often deny coverage for long term antibiotic treatment for Lyme, and this gives them more cover to do so. There are also people who have posted that their doctors are discouraged from the insurance plans to diagnose Lyme.
The problem is, people don't have one insurance company for life anymore. So it's not financially beneficial for one insurance company to pay the full cost of treatment, when they could just cover a couple years of symptom treatment for less.
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Yes, except some of those people are having multiple surgeries as a result, which is going to cost them anyway, and certainly more than if they were leading the charge to diagnose at an early stage and treat adequately to prevent chronic disease. Their cost accountants apparently can't add.
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tdtid
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I know there are so many items ie the herbal or naturopathic meds to help combat the antibiotics that aren't going to be covered by insurance no matter what.
But what do you do when your ducktor even refused testing for lyme due to your Elisa being negative?
When you go to a lyme doctor due to another N.D.'s referral and the lyme is also a N.D., how do you get ducktor to take any of this seriously or if you change doctors, how do you know something that will be tolerant? \
This whole insurance scam seems horrid for people seriously ill from lyme but no financial help. So sad.
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