Actually shaking and fucking crying. $3,400 for five teeth. I thought there’d be a payment plan or something but no. They really expected me to pay $3,400 in full today.
I wasn’t informed of payment options. I wasn’t informed of the price before a week ago. I’ve been preparing and waiting for this for over a fucking year!
Financial worker asked how much I could afford today. Said $10. Then she told me I couldn’t get the surgery. Told her I guess I’m just too poor to fucking exist. Just left. So sick of it. I’m begging for wage slavery and begging for thousands of dollars in medical debt. I’m begging for these awful fucking things, credit cards as well. It’s like I’m going around screaming “kick me in the nuts!” at the nut-kicking convention and nobody can fucking hear me, or worse, hears me and says they’d rather kick someone who’s wasted away more of their time behind a cash register than I have in the nuts.
My teeth are gonna come in crooked, penetrating my sinuses and squeezing my other teeth together so hard I don’t go a day without bleeding and swelling. It’s only gonna get worse.
FUCK.
Does your state offer any financial help?
Have you called other dentists to see what they offer in terms of payment plans/sliding scale? Sometimes dental schools have cheaper care.
Do you feel comfortable saying what state you’re in? Maybe I can search around online and find some assistance. If not, google something like “Statename free dental care for adults” or “Statename low cost dental clinic.”
Consider going on reddit and asking on your state’s/cities subreddit and ask.
Thank you for your advice, I have reiterated my financial situation to SNAP & will be asking the state about their other programs, including medical.
The last bastion of “social” liberalism in the Midwest, Pritzkerland. Communist Woke-inois according to people like my father. Not near Chicago. Subrural or whatever the hell you’d call it, large but spread out and far from the city. Austerity is horrifically apparent here. Land barons and their kin ought to just plant flags and declare independent warlord states. Maybe better than anywhere else in the Midwest (I would not have been able to get SNAP where I used to live), but it’s still hellworld. Hoping, barring revolution any time soon, Pritzker gets the presidency and immediately orchestrates a progressive self-coup. Pritzkrieg, woo…!
there should be something in that state, cheap or low cost dental care.