I just thought I’d share this insane rant with the world.

On 2/14/06, Becky L. (my mom) wrote:

Happy Valentines Day!! Have fun!!! :)

oh it’s no fun, Carolyn was at a seminar for work all day, despite being on vacation (And still not back), i left to get my passport, and the lazy fucks at postal don’t open the passport office til 11:30am (so i got there at 10:30am and got to stare at their “save time by getting your passport at postal” poster for an hour),

then went to an endodontist and used up my entire fucking annual dental coverage in one visit, and it was the shortest dentist visit ever, and a half-finished root canal, and then i had to spend 1hr40mins at the office figuring out the bullshit rules with my insurance companies, because i have to get a biopsy, but as it turns out, the results of the biopsy determine who pays — if it’s an abcess, it’s dental. if it’s a cyst or tumor, it’s medical. so i had to find some random dentist named Amad Amin (and, honestly, i prefer my medical personal to be of my same race, but oppositte sex, because i can read them more easily and make my own conclusions on if they are bullshittng me much more easily, and because women are more gentle) …. who accepted both insurances. and i had to get a referral from Kaiser, my HMO, to get this biopsy done, even tho it’s going to be at a dentist…

and of course, at thi point, i’m HOPING it’s a cyst or tumor and not an abcess because i’ll get more coverage that way.
and of course paying $500 over this vacation wasn’t fun either

neither was having no power ALL sunday until 10:30PM. spent a lot of money at olive garden ($22) and drafthouse ($40) seeing ‘the producers’ which wasn’t the greatest thing in the world bgut was the best thing we could find given the circumstance. plus i had a bad hangover from an aborted party not happy.

2 more appointments. 2nd half of root canal is free.

i know the companies are going to screw me. and i need to buy supplimental dental insurance (and cancel my current one, once i’ve extracted my annual maximum from them there’s no fucking reason to keep paying them $33 a month if i can’t get any ROI on it)

so lemm eknow if you know anything about supplimental dental insurance packages. apparantly people are having to privately cover themselves, even ones with jobs with benefits, because the benefits nowadays are sad illusions of benefits that don’t really exist. my co-worker nancy already has one for her daugther despite working.i tend to think on the ‘capitalism has failed in america’ side, especially with medicine. it’s just a competition for dollars. if this was, dare i say, france, i could have had a doctor come to my house, even as a non-citizen, and it wuold be cheaper. and honestly? I’d choose the easier-to-get care over the more-technologically-superior care. the insurance situation is a runaway out of hand rollercoaster. it was over $1000 for them to do about 20 minutes of work. this is not reality, it’s the fucking matrix