Corporate ethics, redefining the definition of oxymoron.
Medical insurance must be taking lessons from the cell phone plan people. There is good medical insurance, which of course you pay through the nose for and there is crappy medical insurance with deductables, not covered procedures, not covered medication. It is as if the medical insurance providers were taking lessons from the scammers who brought us the infamous "cell phone plans".
Let's add a new twist.
My company has announced it is abandoning our really good medical insurance plan Blue Cross in favor of Brand X. The memes however remain the same. It's a "network" of "in the plan" doctors. If your current doctor is not "in the plan" you are "encouraged" to download a form from their web site to take to your doctor such that he may become "enrolled" in the plan. And wonderously??!!!!???
"The credential process may take three to six months".
Gee, I'm certainly glad I didn't need immediate fucking care!
And, wow, I'm certainly glad the company I work for values my contributions, patents, the dedicated service I have provided to them over the last 20 years enough to allow me to pimp the brand X health care insurer who most likely paid off a company exec to "convince" him to switch plans.
This is the same company who embarked upon an extensive plan dedicated to "corporate ethics complicance".
What do I have to say about this? Fuck America. I'm ready Osama, face the East and pray five times a day, no problem.
Jihad!
Yes, I know, another cryptic diary of nonsense but observe if you will the decline of western civilization. You may note it in several things like
Calling the IRS.
Calling and getting tech support from Microsoft.
Cancelling your AOL account.
Recycling your trash, yet knowing it all goes to the same incinerator.
Yet when the "solution" of government single payer health care is presented we all go No Way. Why? Because deep down we know they would fuck it up, perhaps even worse than it is now.
Pimps for an insurer, that is what my company has asked of me. Oh, gee, I guess I am dating myself, I thought government was supposed to regulate business, silly me.