Monday, April 14, 2008
The company from which I purchase my employee health insurance sent me a letter. The letter's writer, "X___," who identifies himself as a "data capture specialist," uses only uppercase letters. He informs me of a "PRE-EXISTING CONDITION" clause in my insurance; I can avoid its being invoked only by complying with some extremely complicated (nearly impossible) demands, among which are:
2. HAS _____ _____ BEEN SEEN BY ANY PHYSICIANS OR HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS BETWEEN 1/1/2007 AND 1/1/2008?
YES__ NO___
3. IF YOUR ANSWER TO 2 IS YES, PLEASE PROVIDE THE NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF ALL THE PHYSICIANS AND/OR HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS:
Here the data capture specialist has helpfully provided me with three blank lines on which to write those names and addresses.
Let me see here, X___, I'm just checking my records... I'm pretty sure I saw a Dr. Go Fuck Yourself sometime in the past year.
It's like that joke, "If you're a psychic, how come you didn't know I was gonna call you?" If you're a data capture specialist, how come you don't know that every doctor or "health care professional" I've seen in the last year has made me sign a HIPPA form concerning "patient privacy" which allows insurance companies access to my medical records? Capture your own data, fuckwit.
Unless you just sent me this ALL-UPPERCASE TWO-PAGE LIST OF DEMANDS so I'd give up and pay for my medical care by myself. What is next, X__, my data capture specialist? A message written with letters cut from different magazines?
Spurious's taxi driver was right, America's a third-world country. And IT was correct in writing, "There is something very vertiginous about the US, as if one false step will send you spiraling into a dark void of poverty and social isolation with little hope of getting back on track." The false step happens and the dark void opens while you have a job, while you have health insurance, not when or if you lose them.
Call this post my entry in Infinite Thought's "down with existing society" competition, and let the post's narrowness and fearful self-absorption say what they will about existing society.
2. HAS _____ _____ BEEN SEEN BY ANY PHYSICIANS OR HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS BETWEEN 1/1/2007 AND 1/1/2008?
YES__ NO___
3. IF YOUR ANSWER TO 2 IS YES, PLEASE PROVIDE THE NAMES AND ADDRESSES OF ALL THE PHYSICIANS AND/OR HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS:
Here the data capture specialist has helpfully provided me with three blank lines on which to write those names and addresses.
Let me see here, X___, I'm just checking my records... I'm pretty sure I saw a Dr. Go Fuck Yourself sometime in the past year.
It's like that joke, "If you're a psychic, how come you didn't know I was gonna call you?" If you're a data capture specialist, how come you don't know that every doctor or "health care professional" I've seen in the last year has made me sign a HIPPA form concerning "patient privacy" which allows insurance companies access to my medical records? Capture your own data, fuckwit.
Unless you just sent me this ALL-UPPERCASE TWO-PAGE LIST OF DEMANDS so I'd give up and pay for my medical care by myself. What is next, X__, my data capture specialist? A message written with letters cut from different magazines?
Spurious's taxi driver was right, America's a third-world country. And IT was correct in writing, "There is something very vertiginous about the US, as if one false step will send you spiraling into a dark void of poverty and social isolation with little hope of getting back on track." The false step happens and the dark void opens while you have a job, while you have health insurance, not when or if you lose them.
Call this post my entry in Infinite Thought's "down with existing society" competition, and let the post's narrowness and fearful self-absorption say what they will about existing society.
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