The Wonders Of The World They Wrought
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So far, for the x-ray series, CT scan, consults, and blood work, we have racked-up $600.00 in medical bills for our latest adventure. Out of this amount, our insurance company has paid $540, and our co-pay has been $60.00. Since some of the people reading this are my co-workers who are covered under the same policy, we thought it might be good to keep a running tab. We'll try to rate the coverage based on out-of-pocket expenses as well as our interactions with the company.
The doctor's office has secured pre-approval from the insurance company for all the procedures. Already, we're well better than par for the course. After getting word of this, I called the insurance company and had them confirm it. This proved unnecessary, since they had also mailed us a pre-approval status report. So to this stage, we have zero complaints. Historically speaking however, insurance company desk jockeys have earned a reliability rating just a scotch below the average dispatch office for a cab stand in Rio. During festival.
The name of our Blue Cross / Blue Shield provider is ANTHEM. It doesn't help their branding efforts much that whenever I say ANTHEM, I think of the song by Rush ... which is on an album called Fly By Night.
Anthem = Fly by night insurance.
If the coverage continues as it has so far, maybe all my word associations will take on more positive imagery.
Anthem scores a perfect 5 Geddy Lees on the
TNP Insurance Rating Scale. For now.
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4 comments:
Frylock: What's that jet doing in our yard?
Master Shake: Oh hell! What does it look like?
Frylock: Well... It's in the shape of a bass guitar and it's painted with a giant owl.
Master Shake: Swooping down from the moon. I know! It's Geddy's jet. FLOOR IT! We gotta get the hell hell outta here!
Meatwad: Hey, Geddy! THE RIVER!
That's funny because I think of the Ayn Rand novella. The effect is similar, what with her laissez-faire every man for himself attitude (and her weird hang-ups about sex...though I'm not sure what that has to do with medical insurance.)
I like the live version from "All The World's a Stage," which is a titular homage to the Baird who, supposedly, wrote that line in "As You Like It," which was actually written by Kevin Bacon. So your insurance company is a footloose mystic river.
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