In those good old days open enrollment at work meant signing up for next years annual health care choices and optional benefits packages. One year I think we had a choice between five different medical plan providers. Tufts, Bay State, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Blue Cross, those wonderful names where presented to us in colorful books listing all the benefits and in the plan doctors and hospitals.
Today’s “health” fair consisted of a single copied page listing the “benefits” of our new health care provider, United Health Care. There was also a table where they would take your blood pressure. I thought no, this subject pisses me off to make this particular reading totally bogus.
This studiously crafted document could only be the result of hours upon hours of debate by the highest paid attorneys money can buy. What is “covered” is not you but them, and the killer keyphrase?
100% of Eligible Expenses
100% of Eligible Expenses
100% of Eligible Expenses
Ok, that doesn’t sound too bad does it?
Nah, think like a lawyer, notice the world, eligible.
But it says 100% covered right?
OK, now think like a lawyer, and his business agent who is employed by Satan himself. Eligible, do you have a clear picture what eligible means? Do you have in legalese type writing proof of your definition of “eligible”?
Eligible means you don’t get to decide, they do after you get the bill followed by a minimum half hour phone call to people who won’t resolve your dispute anyway.
But at least HIPPA makes my records private right?
http://www.privacyri…
http://www.healthpri…
http://www.patrickke…
In short whenever a politician opens his mouth on the subject of health care he is one of two things.
Retarded.
An employee of Satan.
This is a true testament from a resident of mAssachusetts, a state where this shit is not only unregulated, people are forced to buy it. Let this NOT become a MODEL for a national plan. If it does you might not want to call them on your cell phone either.