Health Insurance

Neither insures your good health, nor is particularly a healthy system.

I have spent most of this summer fighting with my health insurance, trying to get all of my claims paid. Every day at lunch, I got to make yet another phone call. Chasing down paper work and the right people. Right now, I have one doctor all cleared up. And now that my student services are selectively being rescinded, I have to get my prescriptions at Kroger. And the whole $4 thing apparently doesn't apply to me. Grr.

Today, I had to deal with my sleeping sickness. When I tried to fill my prescription last week, they told me I had to run out of my current one first, even though this wasn't a refill. Now they tell me that the script as written is impossible to fill since no such drug exists. Why they couldn't tell me this last week, I don't know. So now I am out of my sleeping sickness medicine. And the only way to get a refill is to wait for snail mail or drive to Lancaster with gas at $4/gallon (all narcolepsy meds are controlled substances). Assuming my doctor ever even calls me back.

As a result of that debacle, I really haven't gotten much done today, since I spent so much time dealing. And of course, my body is back into narcolepsy mode, which makes getting much reading done difficult. It's all really frustrating. But I spent today moping (watched Love Actually) and owning the suck. So tomorrow I make more phone calls and park my ass at Donkey with all my free refills.