In A Few Years, We'll All Laugh About This Shitty New Health Insurance Plan

[n2doc]

BY LIAM SNELS
REGIONAL SALES MANAGER, DEHART ADVERTISING
FEBRUARY 13, 2008 | ISSUE 44•07

Fellow employees, I know that many of you feel frustrated, angry, and confused about this company's new insurance provider, BirchStreet.com Health Insurance. Some of you are even scared for your well-being and the well-being of your families. That's understandable. Right now, it must seem like it's the worst thing in the world that our own employers have chosen to double our deductible and slash our benefits, but trust me, in a few years this will all seem pretty funny.

Think about it. Our president said they switched to this shitty insurance because our old, good plan wasn't worth it financially since employees weren't filing enough claims, so they put us on a new, cheaper plan that might not cover you when you do need to file a claim. See? Now, that's the kind of outright kooky stuff you've just got to laugh about! I bet in a few years, we'll all be cracking up about the wacky timing of that stroke Bernice from accounting had. "Crazy old Bernice," we'll say. "Always picking the worst possible time to have a stroke!"

Believe me, it looks bad now, but later on down the road we'll be able to share a good, hearty chuckle about the e-mail we got from HR touting the $8 we save on monthly premiums—especially Bo, the guy with clinical depression who has to pay $172 for the pills that were $10 under the old insurance. He'll be laughing his head off!

But hey, you know what they say: Laughter is the best medicine. Which is lucky, because under our new provider, laughter is the only medicine that doesn't cost at least $80 at Walgreens.

So we might have to pay up to $2,500 per year out of our own pockets if we get sick, and simple allergy medications cost five times what they did on the old plan, and you have to pay full price for an ambulance ride, and our insurance cards look like laminated business cards and have typos all over them. Big deal! Think how funny all this will seem at a later date.


more at:
http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/in_a_few_years_well_all_laugh

Satire that is a little too close to the truth....

[SoFlaJet]

1. as opposed to the one

we DON'T have now?

[n2doc]

2. Isn't meant to be a dig at Universal healthcare

far from it. Even those who do have jobs that provide health care are getting these kinds of crappy plans shoved down our throats. It is the mindset that private is better that needs to be changed.