Crankshaft by Tom Batiuk and Dan Davis for March 05, 2024

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    B UTTONS  8 months ago

    Lillian’s appointment was 10 minutes ago with Dr. Billing.

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    j_m_kuehl  8 months ago

    No personnel contact for checking in, Unless you need help with the terminal. then you get an assistant helping you without the protection of the germ screen in front of the check-in desk.

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    Gent  8 months ago

    And then you is signs the terms and conditions and privacy policy documents where you is agrees to sells your body and soul to the big pharma. Mwa ha ha ha.

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    kathleenhicks62  8 months ago

    Get another doctor.

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    mn4nu  8 months ago

    Is that CauCayla?

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    Out of the Past  8 months ago

    No contact sign in—except for with the dirty nasty filthy screen containing every disease known and unknown to mankind.

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    ladykat  8 months ago

    Fortunately, I live in Canada and don’t have to answer the 57 questions about billing and insurance.

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    Oge  8 months ago

    Can’t the receptionist read the screen, ask the questions and poke the boxes for her?

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    WorkshopGardener Premium Member 8 months ago

    Plus your identification plus your insurance cards, all on a screen you can barely read.

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    rockyridge1977  8 months ago

    Hit at the wrong place and you have to start over……………..prefer the clipboard….easy to change the date if you get it wrong!!!!!!

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    rickmac1937 Premium Member 8 months ago

    Got that right

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    dv1093  8 months ago

    This is an unfortunate truth today.

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    DawnQuinn1  8 months ago

    Most physicians are more concerned with making a fortune than their patient’s health. Some USA hospitals will try to turn away patients with no medical insurance and send them to a “pauper’s hospital”. Healthcare is all about making money, NOT healthcare.

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    lemonbaskt  8 months ago

    the excitement never goes away at your daily crankshaft

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    raybarb44  8 months ago

    Sad commentary on life for those not astute with the new technology age and the lack of assistance for them……

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    oakie9531  8 months ago

    I’m here to see Dr. Who…what?…no he’s on second

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    tcayer  8 months ago

    One of the specialists demands “Payment at time of service.” I have a high deductible plan, with an employer-sponsored account that pays 90% of the out-of-pocket expenses. The clerk asked me to pay $140. I told her the HRA would pay them in a few days. She told me “We demand payment at time of service.” I told her that I’d been through this, and if I paid them, the insurance would pay them again, and then I’d have to wait for them to get around to reimbursing me. She made me pay anyway. Then, when I went for my follow up a week later, she wanted me to pay again, but I had a “credit” on my account. So she rolled my refund over to the next co-pay. This went on for 6 weeks, until I was better. She told me I had a credit balance, and that they don’t mail out checks until the end of the month. I told her “I demand payment at the time it’s owed.” I also told the doctor I was finding a new specialist.

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    J.J. O'Malley  8 months ago

    Yeah, take that, 21st-century American health care! Batiuk has you in his sights, and he’s taking no prisoners! Never mind that other strips from “Dustin” to “Gasoline Alley” (!) have already done this bit.

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    GG_loves_comics Premium Member 8 months ago

    Don’t forget all the questions about symptoms that you’ve been repeating every time you’ve seen the doctor for the last 15 years.

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    puddleglum1066  8 months ago

    I have been on Medicare for five years now, and the thing I love most about it is the absence of those three million questions about insurance, along with the absence of a “referral” requirement or a need to get a treatment “authorized” by the insurance company. I go to my doctor, he says “you need this,” they do it on the spot, Medicare and my Part B insurance plan pays. End of story. This is particularly nice when I have to visit my orthopedist—we talk about my knees, they take an x-ray, he says I’m still a good candidate for Jell-O Shot treatment, and I get the first one right there in the office. Back when I had commercial, unregulated, employer-mandated insurance, each one of these steps would have required a separate visit and a week to get approval from the insurance company.

    Lilliopsaurus, who is a whole lot older than me, should have the same experience… unless she listened to some has-been actor who sweet-talked her into an “advantage” [sic] plan, which gives you all the restrictions and red tape of conventional private insurance.

    As we say in Chicago, “dere’s two kinds of advantage in da world. Dere’s dat advantage, and dere’s dis advantage. Guess which one you got…”

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    WilliamVollmer  8 months ago

    If Lil is like most of us, all she knows about insurance, and, billing is to show her Medicare, and, insurance cards. The rest is a mystery.

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    billsplut  8 months ago

    I saw my doctor yesterday. All I was asked was my name and birthdate. If you’re thinking “Why is he bringing this up? It’s not funny.” Like this strip is?

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    eced52  8 months ago

    Good bye

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    hubbard3188  8 months ago

    And, of course, there’s no chair to use while working the kiosk, and the pad is attached so you can’t take it back to your chair.

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    Teto85 Premium Member 8 months ago

    Must be a third-world sh!thole country without national health or single payer. Just a for profit “system.” Thank dog we emigrated to a civilised country with national health. The MOH up here even allowed me to practice after passing the required exam for all who are/were licensed in a different country.

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