Bozvotros
Bozvotros's JournalIt's caveat emptor all day long in the healthcare field
You have to know exactly who and where your insurance covers, what it does and doesn't cover, what is first dollar coverage, what is deductible, what percentage of which procedure is covered, what is on your formulary and what isn't. Your doctor might be covered but not your anesthesiologist. The procedure might be almost free in his office but if you are scheduled in an outpatient surgery facility it could be a couple of hundred or more. You also have to know how to review your bill for mistakes and double entries and how to appeal a wrongly issued denial of payment. It is a fucking disgrace is what it is.
Absolutely agree
More and more studies are showing that vaping has virtually no health risks, including second hand vapor and represents the best cigarette quitting modality we have. But the FDA, that fellator of all things pharmaceutical, is still pushing to regulate e cigarettes because "we don't know long term risks." Right. Why don't the pharmaceutical companies have to demonstrate there is no long term risk to their poisons?
Federal and state governments have been milking taxes out of smokers for decades and they have no intention of giving up their cash cow if smokers keep moving to e cigs as it looks like they will. Pharmaceutical companies have made billions on nicotine replacement products and pills that cause a host of health and mental health problems and don't want e cigs cutting into their turf. They have to demonize the act of smoking and then keep repeating the "we don't know long term risk" meme when it comes to vaping.
I too am a long term smoker who simply walked away from smoking with my first purchase of an e cig with no withdrawal symptoms and no looking back. It has been three years with not a single slip and not even a cold or cough. Vaped nicotine has just about the same effects and risks as consuming caffeine.
Why do we need one more study showing that cigarettes are harmful? Cancer and heart disease weren't bad enough? Prospective smokers were going to say "Diabetes? That settles it, no smokes for me?" The VA, where they have lost 10's of thousands of veterans to smoking related disease due to cigarettes the US provided them has banned their employees from mentioning e cigarettes to veterans who smoke, even those who have tried and failed every other modality. The reason? "We don't know the long term risks."
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