My Kindergartner receives bill from W.F. Baptist Medical
by Liv | Published on September 24th, 2009, 2:23 pm | Greensboro
Dear Nutters in the Health Care Industry,
It's been about 6 months since I felt the way I did today. I remember the feelings like the day my company of 5 years refused to let me return to work after going out on medical leave. It turned out to be a good thing in the end, as they now pay me to not go to work, but today it all came flooding back to me when my daughter who is 5 years old receives a bill from Wake Forest Baptist Medical for $226 dollars. That's right my daughter, whom is in Kindergarten is now in debt and in the process of being sent to a collection agency for $226 dollars. What makes it worse is that this is for a procedure which health care paid for 2 years ago.... and is now just getting around to billing the health care company. Now when I called Kim over at Wake Forest Baptist Medical she informed me they can wait to bill their patients up to 7 years? What? That's like sending children bills for being born when they turn 18. I kindly explained that Ren has had the same insurance since she was born, and it has been in effect since the day she was born.
Kim didn't like this. She clearly has been in the routine of receiving irate calls, and has ceased all empathy. The process worsened when she wanted to put the bill in my name. She asks "What relationship are you to her?" I'm like, "I'm her mother", she's like "and who's this Shannon" we have her marked as her mother, and I'm like "That's her other mother." The line almost went dead as she tried to restrain herself from asking "Whose the legal mother?" To which I would have said "Go F yourself", but luckily it didn't go that far. You could tell that then, as it often does, she became quite prejudiced toward me.
I did advise her "Not to put the bill in my name" though I'm betting she did anyways though that would be a legal quagmire for them because Shannon is the one who filled out the paperwork that day. Apparently you can send anyone bill, and swap the names around, here in America. Especially if you claim to be Baptist. I'm sure a good number of wealthier people would have just paid it, but I don't have $200 for American medical companies to screw me out of.
I immediately ran in to Chances room, and punched Chance's punching bag till I sprang my wrist, then dove in bed and screamed, then cried. I'm having those feeling again where I feel like Alice in crackin nutter land and all you Americans are living in some parallel crackin universe where you can justify your crackin morality by screwing little girls. Either that or I'm going completely nuts, in which case it doesn't matter anyways because I can't get back through the looking glass, and can afford American crackin health care.
Where else in the world can a 4 year old girl who needs a crackin echo cardiogram hear "If you can't afford it then you shouldn't get the procedure." What the frak is wrong with all of you?
