"We LOVE your insurance!"

[proud2BlibKansan]

I went to the chiropractor today. Did something to my back yesterday. Much pain.

So I filled out all the paperwork and handed the receptionist my insurance card. She looked at it and said "Oh, we LOVE your insurance!" She said I had some great plan with unlimited visits that only cost me $30 each time. And oh I was so lucky.

So then the doctor took me back to his exam room and first thing he said was "Oh, we LOVE your insurance!" Then he explained what treatment he was recommending. (I think it's the Gold Plated Plan since I have such great insurance.) He didn't seem as excited about fixing my back as he was about my insurance.

I said "And why can't we have Single Payer health care in this country so no one has to worry about how they are going to pay you?"

The doctor said "Well that's what Obama wants, isn't it?"

I told him I didn't think so, at least that's not what we are getting.

And the doctor said "But you don't have to worry about that because you have such great insurance!"

Anyhow. Struck me as sad. This doctor's first priority was how I was going to pay him.