It’s a lesson in market insurance and linguistics! Yay!
Do insurance companies make everything as difficult as possible on purpose?
Kind of like the IRS with taxes. The less people understand, the better for those institutions.
One TikTok user has some first-hand knowledge he’d like to impart, and help simplify the situation.
He goes on to explain that dental and medical insurance are different.
Dental does in fact work like a coupon. It’s as easy as that, folks.
He provides a handy dandy real-world example to help illustrate.
“So for every procedure we do, a filling, a crown, a root canal, extraction, there’s a percentage attached to that procedure by the insurance company. They say we’re gonna cover 80% of this, we’re gonna cover 50% of this, we’re gonna cover 100% of this. So when you come in, you basically hand me a coupon for 80% off a root canal, 100% off a cleaning, 50% off a crown. And that’s the way it works.”
Really we need more professionals out there breaking down common day-to-day annoyances.
But really, what we all wanna know is how do you pronounce COUPON?!
Watch the full breakdown here:
@drbradysmith Qpon or koo-pon? No idea.
Well let’s turn to the trusty comments section to find out what people thought.
This user was really helpful.
This commenter’s situation just seems like highway robbery to me.
While this comment highlights just how out of control it seems to have gotten.
It’s pretty great to have medical professionals opening the lid for a peek inside to a lot of these situations that leave us baffled.
Not all heroes wear capes. Sometimes they’re off-magenta v-neck scrubs.
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Source: https://twistedsifter.com/2023/12/dental-hygienist-explains-that-dental-insurance-is-basically-just-a-coupon-theres-a-percentage-attached-to-that-procedure/