Thirteen Things I Love About My Insurance Company
This week's entry is an ode to my insurance company. Since I don't want to get busted for slander or anything, let's give it a pseudonym...True Floss, True Wheeled. When I was younger, I used to love laying on the floor of my parents' room, talking to my friends for hours. Now my phone conversations with friends are limited to five minute snippets while we are driving hither and yon or slightly longer conversations while we are folding laundry or emptying the dishwasher. The only hour-long phone conversations I have anymore are with my insurance company.
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways...
Wait a minute, this is supposed to be Thursday Thirteen. Do you think I can limit myself to thirteen items?
1. The card is kind of pretty.
2. They don't bore me by consistently paying the same amount for the same things.
3. They've developed a new counting or accounting system whereby I've spent thousands, yet they only count $370.12 toward my "out-of-pocket" expenses. I'm hoping they start calculating our premiums using a similar system.
4. They keep things focused by only being able to talk about my situation on a claim-by-claim basis.
5. They keep me from worrying about taxing things like the "big picture" by discussing individual claims rather than looking at the whole year.
6. They protect me from my doctor who has a PhD and all that kind of stuff by keeping her from frittering away medical judgment to decide what medicines I should take in what quantities.
7. They ensure that my pill-taking never becomes boring by insisting I get 30 pills and cut them in half instead of 60 pills.
...sorry, that's about as far as I can get. Elizabeth Barrett Browning managed to come up with about 20 things in her famous ode. I suspect her subject was NOT True Floss, True Wheeled.
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Wish we HAD insurance!! :)
Posted by: melanie | November 13, 2008 at 07:47 AM
Very cool post. Most people complain about their insurance companies. Happy TT!
Posted by: Brenda | November 13, 2008 at 08:17 AM
Well. I can certainly see why you love them. The lack of boredom alone is worth the premiums. And how lucky you are to have an insurance company that's even more concerned and knowledgeable about your health than your own doctor!
Posted by: Darla | November 13, 2008 at 08:47 AM
There is a place in hell reserved for insurance companies.
Posted by: Journeywoman | November 13, 2008 at 10:01 AM
I'm sure they will use a similar system for your premiums - in reverse.
Posted by: Alice Audrey | November 13, 2008 at 10:16 AM
Ah... insurance companies. The bane of my existance. grrrrr......
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Posted by: Donna (A Grown-up) | November 13, 2008 at 12:49 PM
as long as they are paying your bills and making sure you're healthy, then that's all that counts.
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Posted by: marina | November 13, 2008 at 01:38 PM
I can not begin to guess which company you have hidden behind that pseudonym!
We use You Toss, You Field and they seem to offer the same wide variety of services.
Posted by: Nicholas | November 13, 2008 at 03:01 PM
I always find it soooo reassuring that some clerk at my insurance company, who probably never even took a science course, is overseeing my medical treatment.
Posted by: JoAnn | November 13, 2008 at 04:43 PM