Last year they mentioned the "one or two expensive cases we're covering for your company, so you can count on our coverage." I feel like saying something about how much that hurt to have brought up, even though there was nothing identifying about it, but that seems so over-sensitive.
Actually, it's never appropriate to say something like that. That's how health insurance works, and companies know that -- you get some people who never use it, a lot who have things like strep throat and yearly physicals, a handful with broken bones and common surgeries, and then a tiny amount with things like cancer or other expensive conditions. That's the point behind group insurance, and your company/insurance agent damn well knows it, so it's not okay to refer to employees (or their family members) with "expensive conditions."
My old company's insurance agent was the actual worst. He would tell us about his other client's medical claims. WHAT THE FUCK MAN MEET HIPAA. He insulted us to our faces and was a general dick. He once shouted at me on the phone and told me I could get arrested for violating HIPAA by telling our HR person about my own health issue. No, really.
And he was our insurance guy for at least 15 years if not longer. I assume we kept him on because he either had serious blackmail material on the owner or he was extremely inexpensive for the company.
Was it AOL that got reamed for claiming they had to raise prices because someone had a premature baby? They got shit for that and it was righteous.
Has anyone here gotten a cranial sacral massage? Gonna try this in the morning to get some relief from my head.
Welp, rather than use a visa processing service, it looks like I'm going to apply in person TOMORROW for a business visa. I have all my paperwork as of today, so fingers crossed I guess?
When I was recovering from my car accident I had cranial sacral massage and I loved it. Put me in a trance every time.
Fingers crossed, shrift
I'm now reading the instructions on their website and filling out additional paperwork. AUGH.
I'm working from home tomorrow so I can run downtown to do this, and I will be drinking tomorrow afternoon after my appointment!
Timelies all!
The little guy has finally calmed down. He was yelling up a storm, even after being fed and changed. Putting him in the swing calmed him down. Of course, I'm planning on giving him a bath in a little while, so he may be unhappy again. Oh, well.
