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PoindexterOglethorpe

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13. Many health care plans are likewise all about the network.
Sat Dec 31, 2022, 03:31 AM
Dec 2022

Several decades ago, the company my husband worked for switched to a different plan that did not include the doctor we'd been seeing for several years. So we switched to a different one. At the time we had little kids who needed the kind of care little kids typically need.

While the new doctor was quite nice, we were very grateful when the company went back to the old plan and we could go back to the old doctor.

My point is this: many, many health care plans set what doctors, hospitals, specialized services that you can use. Medicare Advantage is no different from those.

In reality, all health care plans should cover all health care wherever you are. Sadly, in this country, that's never the case.

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