Hellish week

The week was ok at the start then spun into a vortex of doom by Thursday.

First off, I got my nasty viscious period on Wed and spent all of Thur afternoon on the couch spaced out by oxycodone. Once again, I was seriously considering a field hysterectomy - just gimme a spoon and a shopvac...

Then Friday I called ASSurant (emphasis on the ASS) to find out why our quasi-insurance went up 30% fucking percent. I get this bitch on the phone who is completely nonchalant about a 30% increase. She said, "Well, your state has a lot of claims. It's justified." Oh RILLY? An HSA account with a $5400 fucking deductible that only a handful of people in this state has is costing poor pitiful ASSurant SO much money that they had NO CHOICE but to raise the rates??

BULL FUCKING SHIT. So I canceled it. FUCK ASSURANT AND FUCK THE WHOLE INDUSTRY. I'll go to Costa Rica and get my healthcare there, where any American who doesn't work for a huge company or is not independently wealthy goes for decent, reasonably priced healthcare. It's no coincidence that foreigners typically return home to the UK or France or where ever when they retire: they can get healthcare there!!

It's a fucking sin that in the richest country in the world, our healthcare sucks so pitifully. If you're not on Medicaid or Medicare, work for a large company who pays for your insurance or wealthy, you are FUCKED.

We have decided that we'll take the $1000 that ASSurant is holding in their sucky little savings account, put it in a DECENT interest bearing account and add the $250 we've been wasting with ASSurant into this account every month. Then we'll have our own HSA without paying extortion to some asshole insurance company. We figure, you know, if anything big happens, we'll just pay it off directly to the hospital. FUCK INSURANCE.

I'm going to go to Costa Rica. I have a friend who did that and she can't say enough nice things about the high level of care and the reasonable prices.

So, I plan to write letters to everyone to the President of ASSurant (emphasis on the ASS) to the Ins Commissioner of GA to dumbass Dubya himself. It will do no good, but damn will I feel better. :-)

Posted by Misangela at May 27, 2007 09:29 AM