Currently, even after the affordable care act, most insurance plans sneak into their exclusions from coverage list many items. One of the most offensive is excluding prescribed hormone replacement therapy as prescribed by mental health professionals. While necessary for the mental and physical well-being of hundreds of thousands of citizens, insurance companies refuse to cover this medication. This leaves hundreds of dollars a month of medicine to be paid out of pocket to correct hormone imbalances by people who are already required to get health care that does little to help their biggest need.
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