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Sorry to tell you but you were being robbed blind.
Bloods are free at my GP. If I'm going private (after the initial consult which I did forget to mention), once I've been referred it's all been covered. Public it's all free of course.
That's fucking wild shit. Honestly never heard of it. Not doubting you for a second. I've just never come across it.
Edit: I wonder did your employer just pay for an absolutely shit private cover?
Yeah, there's a very real chance that the issue was my GP, but since you're essentially stuck with the GP that you can get it is what it is. I don't live there anymore so I can share these details in case it saves someone else. I lived in Dublin so obviously both are there, the GP was in Kilmainham medical center and the hospital for the specialist and expensive blood work was Black rock hearth Hermitage Clinic. I have a friend who just went through a similar situation so it's not exclusive to me, but he does live in the same building I used to so he might go to the same GP, and that GP might have some arrangement or something with the people from that other hospital, not to mention he blocked me from seeing a cardiologist for years saying I didn't needed it (wanted to do a checkup because my entire father's side family died of heart related conditions, and after the ridiculous amount of money it costed to see the other specialist I just let it go.
I'm saddened to think it could all have been due to a bad GP, my time in Ireland was very badly affected by these experiences with medical care. And speaking with friends they had had similar experiences so I never thought it could have been a bad GP.
The health plan from the company wasn't bad, at least I don't think it was, but I don't have any parameters to compare it to. I worked for 2 companies while I lived there and both used the same health plan. I don't remember what it was, but at the specialist they said that I needed to pay and then talk to my health plan, and the health plan only refunded half of the value. I still work for the same company but on a different country, and here the health plan seems to cover everything, so I doubt they would have a good plan on one country and a bad one on the other, but it could happen.