Ok, so I just spent the last half of my afternoon trying to figure out what the HELL I'm supposed to do with this COBRA coverage issue.
And let me tell you - NO one makes it easy...
I worked in NJ and had NJPLUS, which is essentially BlueCrossBlueShield. Now I'm in WNY, where NJPLUS has no doctors. AH! you say, there are doctors in WNY that are in BCBS though. YES! You are right!
However, BCBS of WNY told me that I had to have a "guest membership" in order to choose a physician here. Otherwise if I use a doctor here and I don't have a guest membership, it's considered "out of network."
NJ told me three, count 'em, THREE different stories.
1. It's all out of network once I move out of the state.
2. The NJPLUS plan automatically converts to Empire PPO (which is not even the same type of plan - NJPLUS is an HMO)
3. NJPLUS is still the plan, but it will be administered through Empire Direct HMO, so I should choose a doctor from their HMO list. This one seems to make the most sense, but when I called Empire, they were like, "We won't cover that - you have to call WNY BCBS"
So I spent 2 hours on and off the phone and I still have empty COBRA paperwork that HAS to be filled out or I get NOTHING (like the Seinfeld Soup Nazi but for health insurance).
You know, I would just say "fuck it" and not do any of it, but there's that "you never know" thing in the back of my head, plus I don't want to have a break in my coverage lest it cause an "issue" with preexisting condition nonsense for my new insurance...aaaarrrrggh!!!
I can't even tell you guys how INSANE this is. Though you can guess. All for 2 months of coverage before the bennies kick in at Roswell.
So tomorrow I'm calling NJ Division of Benefits to find out about the COBRA stuff, hopefully once and for all.
On a happier note, here's a photo of me and my niece (Camille, aka, "Munchkin") at her 1st birthday party (right before we moved).
She is the sweetest thing going...I miss her a lot!
Ok, this is madd late in the game for me, but we're not hipsters! Oh..well I guess some of us are, but not really hip...no NO we're not, not at all. You should come out once. We're more hippies than anything else...not even. Well, ok you can't now but you should when it gets better out. Yeah! Dangit!
Ok you so got me cause I cant find the post either. Weird. Anyways refering back to my emails about it, it was dodge ball any way. And no one wanted to do it, because they hate the dodgeball hipsters. And also, yes read my blog, i agree :)
OK, I 'fess up, I wrote chica's post (she's having logout trouble and I really wanted to post something about the kickball article.
Of course, I'd been scooped (e:hodown), as always. Hodown, I bow down to you, you rule.
I also went through (e:hodown)'s backlog and while I didn't find the kickball reference, I am reminded how much I've missed reading my favorite blogs on e-strip during the past month. OK, that's it, I'm back, bitches. And if you haven't been reading (e:hodown)'s blog, shame on you. Who else would dedicate an entire post to skorts? Fucking A.
And a shout-out to (e:enknot) for the Buffalo Kickball action, boy am I sorry I missed that post (e:enknot,37) when it first went up on 8/13.
Do you really need an excuse for that? Sporty shorts with knee high striped socks is always in! What's your excuse for the soppers, Ms. Ho?
I wrote a post about this a while ago. It's all the rage with the hipsters in Brooklyn. Really it's their excuse to dress up 70s gym style and drink.
There is already one. (e:enknot) and his friends are really into to. You should ask him about it, he is always trying to get more peopl einto it.