Tiesha Foreman says every trip to the doctor has become difficult because she never knows if her health insurance will be there when she goes to settle up.
“It’s stressful and scary and it’s embarrassing because you have them looking back at you like, why? Why are you giving us this card saying that you’re covered and you’re not again?” Foreman told Channel 2 consumer investigator Justin Gray.
The Douglas County mother said for months now, when she goes to pay her health insurance premium, it gets returned. The family had to pay for an MRI out of pocket and even thought an emergency surgery might not be covered.
“One minute I have insurance, we go to a doctor. And then a few weeks later, I’m getting my premium back, and we don’t have insurance,” Foreman said.
In January, Foreman got a tax form in the mail that amounted to a $1,700 tax bill for overpayment of federal health insurance subsidies.
It was for an extra health insurance policy Foreman said she never knew about.
She said an insurance broker she never met signed her up for a policy she never asked for.