Irritation

Someone lit a fire under some administrator's behind and they have decided its time for mom to go to rehab. They decided this today and she has to go tomorrow. Now...personally I think the insurance company is behind this because they don't want her in there over another weekend. I'm not a big fan of the insurance company. Why? Because the rehab center that my mom was in a year ago after the first set of strokes still has not been paid!! We found this out in March when she was back in the hospital and had to go to rehab again and they would not take her because they hadn't been paid. I wasn't a happy camper about this then either. That rehab center complained to who ever one complains to in the Federal Government about this and the insurance company was told to pay the bill. Several months later, they still have not paid said bill. So my mom's care suffers. I'm irritated.

My dad called me today while I was at work in a meeting. He is one of the few calls that I don't screen out during meetings. But today when he called with this it sent me into a bit of a tailspin and I went back into the meeting and remained silent because I was afraid someone might get their head handed to them to no fault of their own.

What really gets me is that so many people don't have insurance and can't get decent care, but even if you have insurance, that still doesn't guarantee you decent care. Because even though the insurance company will drop you if you don't pay your bills on time, there seems to be no incentive or even requirement that they do their share in any type of timely fashion.

The irritation gets worse when I consider that while my employer at one time had their own health insurance division, they sold in the last few years. To who? The freakin' company that isn't paying my mom's rehab bills!