[RANT] [NSFW] [RANT] So we get this new prescription plan at work.......

I tried returning something once at Walmart.  Crazy experience.  Huge line and everyone was in a foul mood.(well, most people are in a foul mood in a return line in general, but there were also a bunch of people cashing checks in the same line who were especially pissed at the folks returning shopping carts full of stuff (gatorade, TP, snacks))

Closest Costco is an hour's drive.  This plan I have to suffer with is through Cigna.  That is a company that, that, 'corporations are people' asshat should have to deal with.  Add Harry Reid, Ms. Nancy, and crybaby Boehner to that list too.  If them lying, two faced scalawags really want to fix the healthcare system, don't address the symptoms.  I don't know what the answers are, but forcing everyone to carry health insurance ain't enough.  With that program in place, my health insurance costs have risen 25%.  I'm sure Cigna's have risen as well.  That outpaces inflation on a logarithmic scale.  The raise I got last year doesn't even come close to covering that expense.  I've begun to think a single payer system might be the only answer at this point.

Oh yeah, I could opt out of the drug plan, if I want to pay full price out of pocket.

The alternative to stopping those meds is living out the rest of your life getting wheeled into WalMarts to pick up your diapers,  because you had a stroke and can't walk, talk or pee or *feces* properly anymore. 

Blader;  succinct, if not diplomatic.  I rather like that in a person.  I had once thought  you were in the medical profession.  If so, you bedside manner must suck!  Just sayin'. 

Truth is, I'm actually a rare med school drop out.  I hated sick people.  But their diseases fascinate me, so I got a PhD instead so I wouldn't have to spend the rest of my life listening to their miserable stories.  Then God invented the intergoogles.....so here I am.  Right back to where I didn't want to be in the first place.

I've been compared to House sometimes.  I wouldn't know, since I've never watched the show. 

I was always a "rub some dirt in it" little league coach.  My most inglorious moment was sending a kid back into a game after he broke his back sliding into home (which we only found out a few days later after a delayed trip to get an MRI. 

What!? Gimme a break.  He could walk!  How was I to know?  We would've had to take an out in his spot in the lineup.  Little league rules are not for wussies.