As you know I have written about my experiences with the private system in Portugal. I get all of my chronic prescriptions (with my SNS # printed on it so I get the near zero price) from my private PCP. We have not utilized the concierge services...but we have relied on our insurance agent to explain the ropes, and on occasion, act as ou…
As you know I have written about my experiences with the private system in Portugal. I get all of my chronic prescriptions (with my SNS # printed on it so I get the near zero price) from my private PCP. We have not utilized the concierge services...but we have relied on our insurance agent to explain the ropes, and on occasion, act as our advocate with the insurance company. If you want her number, she is in Cascais, let me know. So far we have not utilized the public system.
It is such a pity that the public service is in such state! As Europeans, we deeply weep for the direction this is taking, with dismantling public service and private services kicking in. I’m with MÉDIS and it works like a breeze, the hospital bills them directly and I’ve got to pay just a small amount for visits and such. I’m still getting used to it, but it’s an ok system I guess. Only downside is that my hospital of choice is getting extra busy :/ and waiting times are growing in the private health too. I think this situation doesn’t have an escape!
The only solution is for people to actually pay for the service they recieve - either through what they are billed (ugh!) or through what they are taxed (ugh!). Since we don't want that, we get what we pay for. That's the way I see it anyway
I wish we had an insurance company! We have mgen, for pre-existing condition reasons. They are proving exceeedingly challenging to work with, just on a claim basis. They certainly would never think of helping us with anything like our health. Gosh, no. I wish we had gotten them with an insurance company, but we just filled it out online. Argh.
I use Medis and it works marvellously. Of course I do not have any need for medications t hough, so the thing could be different but they cover a lot of things and I know that other insurances are more lax on preexisting conditions!
As you know I have written about my experiences with the private system in Portugal. I get all of my chronic prescriptions (with my SNS # printed on it so I get the near zero price) from my private PCP. We have not utilized the concierge services...but we have relied on our insurance agent to explain the ropes, and on occasion, act as our advocate with the insurance company. If you want her number, she is in Cascais, let me know. So far we have not utilized the public system.
It is such a pity that the public service is in such state! As Europeans, we deeply weep for the direction this is taking, with dismantling public service and private services kicking in. I’m with MÉDIS and it works like a breeze, the hospital bills them directly and I’ve got to pay just a small amount for visits and such. I’m still getting used to it, but it’s an ok system I guess. Only downside is that my hospital of choice is getting extra busy :/ and waiting times are growing in the private health too. I think this situation doesn’t have an escape!
The only solution is for people to actually pay for the service they recieve - either through what they are billed (ugh!) or through what they are taxed (ugh!). Since we don't want that, we get what we pay for. That's the way I see it anyway
Taxes should be better employed for these services: funding public healths, roads, education is the basis of our livelihood as we know it.
I wish we had an insurance company! We have mgen, for pre-existing condition reasons. They are proving exceeedingly challenging to work with, just on a claim basis. They certainly would never think of helping us with anything like our health. Gosh, no. I wish we had gotten them with an insurance company, but we just filled it out online. Argh.
I use Medis and it works marvellously. Of course I do not have any need for medications t hough, so the thing could be different but they cover a lot of things and I know that other insurances are more lax on preexisting conditions!