Just so we're all on the same page: it is illegal for insurance companies to deny coverage of the new COVID-19 booster. Furthermore, CVS, Walgreens, and eTrueNorth are contractually obligated to provide free COVID-19 testing and vaccines to uninsured persons. It's all right here:
I repeat: private health insurance (and the vast majority of other types of health insurance) plans are required by federal law to cover the cost of the new COVID-19 booster at no cost to you.
What has changed: your private health insurer is not required to pay for out-of-network services. This simply means that you may need to get your booster through your regular doctor's office
@DataDrivenMD Out here in the countryside, our little clinic has no plans of getting the current booster and recommends people go out of town to get it. :(
@samhainnight@DataDrivenMD Many practices in communities large and small have no plans to get it and of course lots of people don’t have primary care providers for a variety of reasons. Making the vaccine hard to get and dependent on the megacorporations that mistreat their workers (& customers) and have put most local pharmacies out of business is inexcusable. Our tax dollars shouldn’t be subsidizing the outsourcing of public health to these greedy, incompetent capitalist pigs.
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