Comments on: Anybody got a brick?

By: Hud

Hud — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 23:03:01 +0000

I’ve wondered if there is some body whose job is to oversee insurance companies such that I could lodge a complaint. And, if this continues I will certainly go talk to the folks at the university who selected this company as our provider. Right now, as annoyed as I am about having to deal with it, as long as it gets resolved I’ll probably let it go.

Bad Faith is a great Sartrian concept though, you are right.

By: gorjus

gorjus — Tue, 31 Jan 2006 21:45:27 +0000

Hud–and I’m not yr lawyer, and I can’t advise you to do this–but you should talk to a lawyer. Seriously. If you don’t know one there, I’ll find you one. There’s a type of thing called a “bad faith” action, which is where an insurance company out of hand denies something that should be covered, and continue to do it–”in bad faith.” A wonderful concept from Sartre that we have imported . . . .

By: Kathleen

Kathleen — Fri, 27 Jan 2006 16:47:47 +0000

Assholes! >:(

By: Dr. Wagner

Dr. Wagner — Thu, 26 Jan 2006 17:54:42 +0000

Well, I’m glad to hear that it was all benign. That loop of lunacy that they won’t pay for the test because the test came back negative seems like a horrible way to conduct things.

I was at the pharmacy yesterday picking up a prescription. The lady in front of me was holding her sick three month old, while at the same time trying to manage her 6 or 7 year old. She was getting medicine for herself be cause she was sick and then they were all going to the hospital to see her husband who is ill from something they have yet to identify.

Anyway, the pharmacist brings her meds over and says “That’ll be $78.41.” and she’s noticably shaken.

“I can’t pay that much. Can you tell me which ones are the most important?”

Now how much does that suck? You have to pick the medicines to get because you can’t afford them.

The pharmacist then takes a look at her prescriptions and says that her plan will only cover two namebrand meds per month. And then he tells her that this prescription is really just a decongestant and this one is really just a something else. He gets the Wal-greens brand version of each of those and then magically her bill is only $20.

Man, if she hadn’t asked and just scrounged up some more money somehow…like say not buying gas or groceries or something…she would have spent $50 she didn’t need to. That’s ridiculous. I hate that kind of stuff. But I don’t know how to fix it.

I hope that the review went in your favor. Good luck with that.