Health Care Costs

Health Care Costs My family has an insurance plan that covers most of our health care costs. However, there are some things that insurance will not cover. These are things that my family has to pay for ourselves. These things include contacts for eyes, glasses repair, tooth paste, tooth brushes, floss, pills, medicine, tinctures, and blood tests. However, even though insurance doesn’t pay for our tooth paste, tooth brushes, and floss, we still get them for free, because my aunt is a dental hygienist. She gets free tooth brushes, tooth paste, and floss from the clinic she works in all the time. It is enough to provide for her entire family, even the extended family. It is also enough to provide for hundreds of people in poverty in other countries, that is why I take hundreds of toothbrushes, tooth pastes, and floss with my every summer when I go on a missions trip to a foreign country, and it’s free! The things left that I have to pay for are contacts for eyes, glasses repair, pills, medicine, tinctures, and blood tests. Contacts for eyes cost ninety nine dollars a year. That is, if you get the yearly plan. The yearly plan is basically to get eye contact refills, but if you don’t run out of the packs given to you, then you don’t need to go in every year. I have had the same packs for three years and still did not need to go in. I might have to next year. So contacts only cost me ninety nine dollars a year IF I go to get them that year.

My insurance company does not cover glasses repair. They pay for the glasses appointment and the glasses only. If I want anything additional with my glasses, like a no glare solution, or a warranty, or a scratch resistant layer, then it will not cost the insurance anything, but me. If I do not pay for the warranty myself, and my glasses break anyways, or if I lose them and need a replacement, the insurance will not cover for it, but I will have to. These tragedies have never happened to me before, so I have never had to pay