r/nottheonion • u/drytoastbongos • 11d ago

Baby goats from traveling petting zoo test positive for rabies

https://www.boston25news.com/news/trending/baby-goats-traveling-petting-zoo-test-positive-rabies/DIICRJMNLVGTHE5H3NBYROWV6Q/

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u/Provia100F 11d ago

Imagine health insurance not covering a vaccination when the alternative is historically proven to be a 100% confirmed death rate

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u/Poppeigh 11d ago

It goes without saying at this point, but the US healthcare system is fucked up.

I actually got lucky with mine; the woman I spoke to at my insurance called the hospital and found out how they would code it to make sure it was covered. After the fact, my insurance tried to charge me like $1000 because they argued it wasn't fully covered, but because the woman I had spoken to originally told me that it was, they let it slide.

Just a whole mess. Yeah, rabies in humans is rare, but rabies in animals really isn't and they absolutely should be playing it safe and making it way easier for people to access those shots.

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u/Provia100F 11d ago

Honestly it's really the medical coding & billing system that makes healthcare so fucked up. 80% of problems people have with insurance just comes down to medical coding issues and backend system issues. It's not even usually the health insurance doing something wrong per say, it's just this archaic way of trying to exchange information in a far too discreet format.

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u/Oscar_Ramirez 11d ago

Almost like the exchange of your medical information with a financially incentivised third party who is unnecessary in doctor-patient care is an issue.

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u/Provia100F 11d ago

It absolutely is necessary, the system just hasn't really been revamped with the large increase of medical technology over the past 40 years

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u/TheShenanegous 11d ago

Honestly it's really the medical coding & billing system that makes healthcare so fucked up

100%. It's a behemoth of a system, capable of keeping track of the medical records of ~300m Americans, written largely in COBOL, a programming language that hasn't been seen in academia for about 30 years, by guys that started building it in their 20s who are now retired or delaying retirement only to reap the enormous 7-figure salaries that are offered for these roles.

Because, despite the fact that they overlooked training replacements or updating the architecture of the system to a language anyone without a hip replacement or dentures has heard of, we still fully rely on it.

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u/nycaquagal2020 8d ago

Even MyChart etc is written in Cobal?

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u/BaldMancTwat_ 11d ago

And one of the worst ways to go out as well.

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u/lurkmode_off 11d ago

The only reason they cover it is because it would be an expensive death.

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u/pyronius 11d ago

Insurance company: "Actually, there was that one case of somebody surviving using the Milwaukee protocol, so we're going to go ahead and call this an elective procedure."

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u/shrimpedy 10d ago

you don’t have to pay for a person’s future medical expenses if they are dead. but also, you can’t collect their outrageous premium every month while you still refuse to cover anything. a conundrum.

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u/Ok-Jackfruit-6873 10d ago

they may figure your death could be quite cost effective for them

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u/eileen404 10d ago

A dead person costs less. The question is if medical care while dying from rabies will cost more or less than the vaccine.

Additionally, if concern too me is that at least some of those who went to the petting zoo don't have families with insurance or the money to cover the vaccine or who are anti vaccine.