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I decided to get vision insurance. It was what, ~20 bucks a month? Free glasses, optometrists visit, why wouldn't I? The optometrists visit wouldn't give me a
by friend_and_foe 3y ago
I decided to get vision insurance. It was what, ~20 bucks a month? Free glasses, optometrists visit, why wouldn't I?
The optometrists visit wouldn't give me a prescription for contacts without extra money. Insurance didn't cover it. Even though the data they need they already have from the eye check, they wouldn't write it on the paper unless I paid.
Getting glasses, they only covered a limited selection of frames, all crappy frames. The lenses wouldn't be anything but bare lenses with one or the other add on but not both, no scratch resistance, no glare protection, and there was a copay. So I compromised on what I got.
In the end, with the insurance cost for the year, I wound up spending a little more than if I'd just walked into the optometrists office and handed them cash and bought what I wanted, and I didn't get what I wanted. Vision insurance is a rip off.
A couple of years ago, I ordered 2 pairs of glasses, one for regular with anti glare and scratch resistance, and one prescription polarized sunglasses, for a grand total of 70 bucks with a 2 year expired prescription (my eyesight problems are from welding irresponsibly as a teenager and not degenerative, it hasn't changed since I got my first prescription) on a popular glasses buying site online. Still using them, but I have since ordered one additional pair with that same prescription that I don't really wear, for like 50 bucks with all those lenses add ons.
I plan to go get my eyes checked next year again, just to make sure nothings changed as I've gotten older, but I will never go back to doing things the usual way with yearly checks and insurance and buying glasses at the optometrist and all that, it's a giant sham. My way isn't exactly $2 glasses like in India but for an average cost of 40 bucks per pair with the addons I like and maybe one optometrists visit every 5 or so years, I think I'm doing OK.