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I've decided that whenever something drives me so insane that I feel like my hair's gonna catch fire and I want to grab a fork and rake it over my face, I'm just gonna say LOL! Because LOL! is just so perfectly, blithely banal and meaningless and these things that drive me crazy are so comical in their own blackly horrifying way that really, what else is there to say?
Today's LOL! is the news that my health insurance premiums are going up to almost $200 a month -- that's $200 a month, deducted automatically from my paycheck. This does not of course cover any of the copayments that I have to shell out every time I see a doctor or fill a prescription. And of course, this is the insurance I have through my employer, so I'm paying far less for it than if I had to buy it on my own. I probably wouldn't even be able to buy into this plan on my own.
Now, my company has just switched to Blue Cross which is owned by parent company Wellpoint, the biggest health insurer in the country. Wellpoint is at the forefront of pouring millions upon millions of dollars into lobbying, advertising and public relations to defeat any chance of national healthcare ever becoming a reality in America. So here's the LOL! part -- my own premiums are funding this. I am literally, literally giving Wellpoint thousands of dollars a year so that they can fight against my interests and against the wellbeing of America as a whole. I am funding this. I am forced to fund this.
LOL!
Today's LOL! is the news that my health insurance premiums are going up to almost $200 a month -- that's $200 a month, deducted automatically from my paycheck. This does not of course cover any of the copayments that I have to shell out every time I see a doctor or fill a prescription. And of course, this is the insurance I have through my employer, so I'm paying far less for it than if I had to buy it on my own. I probably wouldn't even be able to buy into this plan on my own.
Now, my company has just switched to Blue Cross which is owned by parent company Wellpoint, the biggest health insurer in the country. Wellpoint is at the forefront of pouring millions upon millions of dollars into lobbying, advertising and public relations to defeat any chance of national healthcare ever becoming a reality in America. So here's the LOL! part -- my own premiums are funding this. I am literally, literally giving Wellpoint thousands of dollars a year so that they can fight against my interests and against the wellbeing of America as a whole. I am funding this. I am forced to fund this.
LOL!