This is the retina–the light-sensitive tissue on the back wall of my right eyeball–in a digital photo taken by an optometrist Monday in my complete eye exam for new glasses. He said the point where the optic nerve comes in (the white area) has a bit of normal degeneration (for a sixty-four year old) on one side, but the blood vessels are clear, and the dark spot on the left of the retina is only a normal amount of macular granularity. The left retina was the same. Hence, with no disease discovered, my insurance wouldn’t cover the test and I paid the whole sixty-eight dollar fee. But the good news was that my eyesight seems to be good to go for a while longer.
THE TEXAS SCRIBBLER 
You got away cheap. Eva had to pay $84.00 this morning to find out the same thing about her eyes. Joe & Eva
Also, can’t you go to the VA and get it for free? I did. Joe
I may have the price wrong, but that’s what I remember. Probably could have gone to VA. Didn’t think about it. Not sure they would have had the frames I wanted, though.
Good news. Nifty pictures. But the logic of “with no disease discovered, my insurance wouldn’t cover the test” escapes me. But then, I only had 3 years of experience with US health insurance.
That’s the logic of that test, although it’s true that most private health insurance balks at paying much (or anything) for preventive care. Not to worry, most estimates are that we will have socialized medicine pretty soon. Then we can all complain about the lack of logic of everything.