The days of full covid coverage are over.

[Zorro]

The days of full covid coverage are over. Insurers are restoring deductibles and co-pays, leaving patients with big bills.

Large insurance companies waived cost-sharing for coronavirus care in 2020, but it has sprung back in 2021

Jamie Azar left a rehab hospital in Tennessee this week with the help of a walker after spending the entire month of August in the ICU and on a ventilator. She had received a shot of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine in mid-July but tested positive for the coronavirus within 11 days and nearly died.

Now Azar, who earns about $36,000 a year as the director of a preschool at a Baptist church in Georgia, is facing thousands of dollars in medical expenses that she can’t afford.

“I’m very thankful to be home. I am still weak. And I’m just waiting for the bills to come in to know what to do with them,” she said Wednesday, after returning home.

In 2020, as the pandemic took hold, U.S. health insurance companies declared they would cover 100 percent of the costs for covid treatment, waiving co-pays and expensive deductibles for hospital stays that frequently range into the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2021/09/18/covid-hospital-bills-insurance-deductible/

[Fullduplexxx]

1. Calling b.s. on azar having the vaccine

[Walleye]

2. I must say I do wonder if some of these "breakthrough" cases might be due to dishonesty

[DURHAM D]

3. It takes awhile for the vaccine to be fully effective.

Forget how many weeks for the J & J.

[Fullduplexxx]

4. Perhaps but I think they've just taken to lying about taking it

It makes the vaccine look bad and gives them "case" to point to and say seee.

[Walleye]

6. I bet there's a certain percentage of these breakthrough cases that are lying

But mainly because there are so many dishonest people in this country now, that think it’s fine to lie because they’ve got god on their side or something. And apparently there are no consequences for lying with impunity about a life or death public health matter.

[Midnight Writer]

9. I got the J & J and they told me four weeks for full effectiveness.

[democrattotheend]

11. I'm pretty sure those people are counted as unvaxxed

At least that's how they do it at a friend's hospital. People who are treated for COVID who have had only one shot or had their second shot within the last 14 days are counted as unvaccinated.

[jimfields33]

5. 11 days after vaccine is not fully protected.

I believe this story. If it was a month later maybe suspicious.

[sarisataka]

8. Based on what exactly?

I have known several people who have had covid after being vaccinated, one of them being my wife. All of them had the misfortune of getting it soon after receiving the vaccine.

[central scrutinizer]

10. It should be easy for the hospital to check

In Oregon, your vaccinations are logged into a data base. When I went in for my wellness exam in April, I had my vaxx card ready but my doctor already knew I’d had both Pfizer shots.

[Happy Hoosier]

7. Coverage for anti-vaxxers should be 0%. NT