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I Am Part Of The Problem
Apr. 25th, 2010 10:14 amYesterday, I was having a chat with my beloved little sister about pay, job satisfaction, formal benefits and fringe benefits. This comes in the wake of visiting the St. George Distillery game room and getting my ass handed to me at ping pong but thoroughly *DOMINATING* air hockey. The fine folks that put on the St. George floorshow are not terribly well paid they do have insurance, in house masseuse, and the joy of working in a font of liquor...with Rock Band and HALO when every they need it. This, in my opinion, would make dealing with that much of the drunken public bearable day after day.
The revelation that the employees there actually had health coverage caused a jaw drop to my sister with the muttering that she would be better off working at the distillery than seeking any position below curator-director at a museum. I then stated that while UC did not pay fabulously, even worse with furloughs, that my health insurance was actually pretty damn good and I don't even have the best of the best of the policies(!) available to us to choose from.
And then thought back across a good 15 years of griping regarding the loss of paycheck to insurance that I never used since I was young, healthy, and indestructible. Actually, that's a lie...I never believed I was indestructible; that's why I've always had decent accidental death & dismemberment coverage everywhere I've worked. There is always a slight chance that *this time* I won't be as lucky as the last several hundred stupid/awesome things I've done. Regardless, health insurance that gave me a $25 co-pay to visit a doctor when sick with a net result of being told "Yup, you're sick, thanks for visiting" makes you resent the expense.
Now, however, I have Brimley Disease to manage and this is where my current coverage has paid off like two spades in a bush.
(That was a triple mixed metaphor attack combo)
Every two months, I pay $15 for medication. My blood testing gear: Free. My quarterly lab blood work ups: Free. Actual doctor visits are still $25 but no particular need to do that when I can just email him for: Free. Basically, I now feel that I am getting value for my insurance. In fact, I feel like I am getting away like a bandit when I choked slightly listening to the lady checking in with her $150 co-pay for office visit.
I do not recommend diagnosis with a chronic disease to increase your satisfaction with the health care system. Being healthy is better, but it looks like a needless expense.
The revelation that the employees there actually had health coverage caused a jaw drop to my sister with the muttering that she would be better off working at the distillery than seeking any position below curator-director at a museum. I then stated that while UC did not pay fabulously, even worse with furloughs, that my health insurance was actually pretty damn good and I don't even have the best of the best of the policies(!) available to us to choose from.
And then thought back across a good 15 years of griping regarding the loss of paycheck to insurance that I never used since I was young, healthy, and indestructible. Actually, that's a lie...I never believed I was indestructible; that's why I've always had decent accidental death & dismemberment coverage everywhere I've worked. There is always a slight chance that *this time* I won't be as lucky as the last several hundred stupid/awesome things I've done. Regardless, health insurance that gave me a $25 co-pay to visit a doctor when sick with a net result of being told "Yup, you're sick, thanks for visiting" makes you resent the expense.
Now, however, I have Brimley Disease to manage and this is where my current coverage has paid off like two spades in a bush.
(That was a triple mixed metaphor attack combo)
Every two months, I pay $15 for medication. My blood testing gear: Free. My quarterly lab blood work ups: Free. Actual doctor visits are still $25 but no particular need to do that when I can just email him for: Free. Basically, I now feel that I am getting value for my insurance. In fact, I feel like I am getting away like a bandit when I choked slightly listening to the lady checking in with her $150 co-pay for office visit.
I do not recommend diagnosis with a chronic disease to increase your satisfaction with the health care system. Being healthy is better, but it looks like a needless expense.
