Buying a Nebulizer is Tougher Than Getting Through Airport Security
// 5.15.09 // Filed under: Freedom & Politics, My Daughter, Parenting
Last week I had to buy a nebulizer for my daughter. While she hasn’t been diagnosed with asthma, she does have “respiratory sensitivity” that turns every simple cold into an alarming event in which I end up sitting on the bathroom floor holding her while the shower runs hot for half an hour to steam up the room and help her breath.
So the doctor gave me a prescription for a nebulizer. My health insurance won’t cover it, so I’m thinking I’ll just walk into the medical supplies store and pick one up. Not. First I had to fill out paperwork. Three pages of medical background and personal information. The woman then told me to “take a seat” and she’d be back in a few minutes. Huh?
She went back to her semi-private office area in the back of the store and starting typing away on her computer. She calls questions out to me every now and then. What county do I live in… Was my daughter actually diagnosed with anything… She’d need to copy my health insurance card… After 15 minutes, I reiterated that my health insurance is not covering this and was all this paperwork necessary? Oh yes, she says, “for my protection.”
TWENTY-FIVE minutes later she comes out with several pages of printout from what looks like the old dot-matrix printers with the little holes down the sides that you have to tear off. She busily starts separating all the copies and asking me to sign. I have to sign that I DON’T want them to submit to my insurance company. I have to sign again that I fully understand I am buying this product WITHOUT expectation of financial compensation from any insurance company. I have to sign two sets of instructions on how to use the machine. I have to sign that the store employee opened the box and demonstrated the instructions. Then I have to wait while she gets a respiratory nurse on the phone to explain the instructions yet again. And, oh, then I have to sign that… you guessed it… the respiratory nurse spoke to me and I understand the instructions.
Forty minutes later, I am allowed to give her my credit card and purchase the damn nebulizer. Well, at least I didn’t have to take my shoes and belt off.
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I am amazed that you weren’t frisked – are kids doing something with nebulizers, these days?
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That’s just nuts!
Thankfully, when my daughter needed one, we had decent enough insurance that my doctor knew she could just go in the back room, grab one, and hand it over. No weird paperwork or contracts signed in blood or anything.
Oh man! Can you return it? I have one I’d give to you. I’ve been trying to get my ped’s office to give me a heads up when they get a family that doesn’t have the insurance to cover one in need but they’re too busy to keep track of such things. *rolleyes*
My oldest had reactive airway disease as an infant and toddler (probably as a result of being preemie) but has since out grown it – we’ve been fortunate in not having to use the nebulizer for a few years now and I’ve been trying to figure out how to get rid of it since.
Insane! I had to give my kids’ health care info the other day to buy Children’s Gravol. They are going way too far these days!
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Who knew it was that hard to purchase a nebulizer or maybe the lady was just a incompetent worker?
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Oh my goodness. Its nothing like that over here in the UK!
Nikki
no kidding- it’s crazy- when I went to get one for my son, insurance wouldn’t cover it and they told me, “maybe you could use a toilet paper roll?” ummmm. . . .
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It’s not the government, it’s the lawyers. Enough people sued because they didn’t feel they were trained enough and something went wrong.
I have a metal replacement knee and now I always fail airport security. I wear shorts and short sleeve polo-shirts & I still need to be frisk. If I weren’t so modess I would strip completely. You can’t wear shoes thru security – heck I can see it now some idiot will upset airport security by wearing cloths that are a weapon in disguise and now we all need not worry about being modess, we all can walk around the airport with either dangling boobs or wee-wees.
I have never heard of this type of documentation before buying a nebulizer.Its really bad. If someone needs it urgently still then do you have to go through all these kind of paper works?