My mom had a very mild form of breast cancer 10 years ago, caught in the earliest stages and hasn’t reappeared since. Last year, her oncologist had to get creat

My mom had a very mild form of breast cancer 10 years ago, caught in the earliest stages and hasn’t reappeared since. Last year, her oncologist had to get creative with billing codes, because the insurance company changed mom’s coverage so that yearly screening was no longer “preventative“, and thus not covered. No warning, just a huge bill when she went to pay the copay and leave. The insurance is through her job as a teacher in a large county, and is generally a very comprehensive plan. It would be a gold plan of some sort through an Obamacare exchange. Never underestimate the callousness of the American health system.