Patients/community members discuss access to care. (2023)
It doesn’t matter. It doesn’t matter. Because if they have a certain quota of how many people they can get in there, that’s what they do. If they accept your insurance, they got to call and verify that everything before they even let you come in there. And matter of fact, I have had some that have me on the phone, like the dentist I’m trying to find now, or dentist had me on the phone where they ran my insurance to make sure that my insurance going to pay for all what I got to have done. Then the woman said, “no, we can’t do it. We are going to refer you to such and such.” Then they refer me to this one guy that’s way out on East Washington Street, wasn’t it? Come to find out he done killed a couple patients and done nerve damage. Some people by doing the oral surgery that I have to have done. I’m like, “no, I’m not going to him. Uh-huh. No, no, no.”