Why, if Howard Dean had become President of these United States, even I might have danced a bit!
Susan--I saw this medical advice column a while back; I offer it for what it may be worth Dr. K [Click] Good luck.
Humana sends me enrollment offers; they go straight into the trash. We are very happy with Kaiser and have no intention of changing.
This coming week I might be moderately popular, but two depositions disappeared. I have a high profile case in the Bay Area on Thursday that I expect will be a go. Week after next I may be able to audition Grado headphones in San Diego.
Thanks Alan, Son #1 has the large economy sized psoriasis. He was getting the biologic injections and that's what Humana will not pay for. The injections are hideously expensive, but they work. Humana reeks. They are the absolute worst example of a for-profit health insurance company. And don't get me started on the cost of prescription drugs in the USA!
Purging the mammonolators from health care would be a noble accomplishment. Decent universal health care as well as food security should be unarguable human rights. It's hard to see in the near future any impetus to social reorganization sufficient to bring about such amelioration of life in these United States; but it would be, wouldn't it?
Autoimmune diseases are in general the very devil to treat.
There's an article on health care in the U.S. in this past week's Economist. It focuses on the massive amount of money wasted because of fraud, but also mentions other problems. Seems to me they mention Humana as being among the problems. It doesn't say anything we don't already know, but I'll see if I can find it on the inner tubes.
In the mid '70s my Aunt Irene (aunt by marriage and very unpopular in the family), who is an RN, went to work for a fledgeling company called Humana as some sort of administrator. The consensus was that she had found the perfect place to work. I take it Humana has gone straight downhill from there.Aunt Irene did quite well in the company.
Oh, and listener, I really do have hundreds of quilt books. I'm not even starting on the books on miniatures, or dolls, or crafts or knitting and sewing, or organization (clearly I have ignored those!), or self-improvement, or home dec. on and on ad nauseum. I am very, very fortunate to have a room for a library with shelves on all four walls. What the Collyer brothers were to newspapers, I am to books. It occurred to me today (finally!) that I can also donate books to my library for sale or shelving or whatever. In some cases I have 3 or 4 of the same book, all in excellent condition. There's Miss Abby, and then there's me - Miss Abbynormal. I'm too old to care.
Um well, no, Alan. They're not all on the walls which is what got me to sorting, cataloging and shelving in the first place. One too many random avalanches!
I sometimes buy duplicates of books and records. Even found triplicates of one LP recently. Then there are the books I buy, put away (or misplace), and upon finding can't imagine why I bought them. Those go in the library box, as do duplicates. Can't do that with LPs though. I'll have to find another solution for those.
Susan, I would kill for a room with bookshelves on all four walls! Heck, I'd commit grievous bodily harm for a room with straight, vertical walls instead of my lovely (it really is rather nice in other ways) garret with its sloping walls. Only half-height bookcases will fit in most of the room, and that just is not sufficient! My record cabinet is much too small as well. And my CDs are everywhere and hardly organized at all. There are two nice, big, full-sized bookcases in my bedroom, which are full to capacity, almost all with audiobooks. Thank goodness for audio downloads, or I'd have no room at all!
Why, if Howard Dean had become President of these United States, even I might have danced a bit!
ReplyDeleteSusan--I saw this medical advice column a while back; I offer it for what it may be worth Dr. K [Click] Good luck.
Humana sends me enrollment offers; they go straight into the trash. We are very happy with Kaiser and have no intention of changing.
This coming week I might be moderately popular, but two depositions disappeared. I have a high profile case in the Bay Area on Thursday that I expect will be a go. Week after next I may be able to audition Grado headphones in San Diego.
--TTFN
Alan
Thanks Alan, Son #1 has the large economy sized psoriasis. He was getting the biologic injections and that's what Humana will not pay for. The injections are hideously expensive, but they work. Humana reeks. They are the absolute worst example of a for-profit health insurance company. And don't get me started on the cost of prescription drugs in the USA!
DeletePurging the mammonolators from health care would be a noble accomplishment. Decent universal health care as well as food security should be unarguable human rights. It's hard to see in the near future any impetus to social reorganization sufficient to bring about such amelioration of life in these United States; but it would be, wouldn't it?
DeleteAutoimmune diseases are in general the very devil to treat.
--Alan
There's an article on health care in the U.S. in this past week's Economist. It focuses on the massive amount of money wasted because of fraud, but also mentions other problems. Seems to me they mention Humana as being among the problems. It doesn't say anything we don't already know, but I'll see if I can find it on the inner tubes.
DeleteIn the mid '70s my Aunt Irene (aunt by marriage and very unpopular in the family), who is an RN, went to work for a fledgeling company called Humana as some sort of administrator. The consensus was that she had found the perfect place to work. I take it Humana has gone straight downhill from there.Aunt Irene did quite well in the company.
Here's that article: That's Where The Money Is. Click.
DeleteOh, and listener, I really do have hundreds of quilt books. I'm not even starting on the books on miniatures, or dolls, or crafts or knitting and sewing, or organization (clearly I have ignored those!), or self-improvement, or home dec. on and on ad nauseum. I am very, very fortunate to have a room for a library with shelves on all four walls. What the Collyer brothers were to newspapers, I am to books. It occurred to me today (finally!) that I can also donate books to my library for sale or shelving or whatever. In some cases I have 3 or 4 of the same book, all in excellent condition. There's Miss Abby, and then there's me - Miss Abbynormal. I'm too old to care.
ReplyDeleteOh, if the books are only on the walls you don't have a bad case, Susan. [grin]
Delete--Alan
Um well, no, Alan. They're not all on the walls which is what got me to sorting, cataloging and shelving in the first place. One too many random avalanches!
DeleteI sometimes buy duplicates of books and records. Even found triplicates of one LP recently. Then there are the books I buy, put away (or misplace), and upon finding can't imagine why I bought them. Those go in the library box, as do duplicates. Can't do that with LPs though. I'll have to find another solution for those.
DeleteSusan, I would kill for a room with bookshelves on all four walls! Heck, I'd commit grievous bodily harm for a room with straight, vertical walls instead of my lovely (it really is rather nice in other ways) garret with its sloping walls. Only half-height bookcases will fit in most of the room, and that just is not sufficient! My record cabinet is much too small as well. And my CDs are everywhere and hardly organized at all. There are two nice, big, full-sized bookcases in my bedroom, which are full to capacity, almost all with audiobooks. Thank goodness for audio downloads, or I'd have no room at all!
I hear you, Cat, and I know how very lucky I am. Had to wait over 60 years to get to this point, but glad I'm finally here.
DeleteSome things are worth waiting for. *grin*
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