Monday, February 10, 2014
Don't Miss The Jason Jones Bit
This has got to be the best Jason Jones bit I've ever seen, and it's Jon Stewart's Daily Show at it's best.
Cupid On the Couch in #416
At first I was thinking something along the lines of,
"He's worse than my mother doc, tell him I just haven't met anyone yet."
or
"He can have his arrows back when I finally meet someone."
But when I got this one I knew it was much better.
Oh, but then I came up with another one that is essentially the same joke, but might be just a little better worded.
"You gotta help me doc, I can't keep their phone numbers straight!"
About 5 Mins. Later:
Damn! You know, I've been trying to be disciplined by not submitting the first (second or third) idea that comes into my head, and today is a case in point of why, because here's the caption I should've submitted.
"Tell me doc, how am I going to explain this to my wife?"
Or maybe it just seems good because it's fairly accurate to what happened to me about 15 years ago.
Wednesday, February 5, 2014
I Wrote a Letter to President Obama
And here it is.
Dear President Obama;
I writing to you because I don't think you'd be happy to know that people like me are being refused access to Healthcare.Gov, which means I'm essentially being denied healthcare coverage under the AAC.
First I want to congratulate you on getting the law passed. I have been an ardent supporter of the AAC from the beginning. I have a particularly fond memory of when the House took that crucial vote and passed the Senate's version of the law. I was pretty much elated, and it still ranks as one of my best memories of when my government has done something of value for me. And of course I watched the Supreme Court pretty closely, but where Republicans have failed to refuse me healthcare coverage, your bureaucrats running the program have succeeded.
I made the mistake of trying to sign up that first week enrollment was open, and I’ve been locked out of the system ever since. I’ve tried (not exaggerating) about 15 times to create an account, but the website simply won’t let me. This wouldn’t be such a big problem with really any other organization, but talking to anyone at the phone number provided is absolutely worthless. I’ve tried that about five times, and even escalated it once and demanded to speak with a supervisor, with no luck. The left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing, and I now understand that they are not associated with the website at all, and are therefore useless to me.
This morning I went into a dental clinic to get my teeth cleaned, and they refused to see me because my blood pressure was too high. (Something like 195 over 132) I really don’t know what that means but the woman there clearly seemed concerned. She wanted me to head over to a free clinic somewhere right then, but I had to go to work.
I did have time to take one last stab at creating an account on Healthcare.Gov, and of course it didn’t take, so this time I tried the Live-Chat option. Whoever I was live-chatting with was quite rude and dismissive of me, but finally agreed to “put in a report” (is what he called it) for me.
Quite quickly I was contacted by phone by someone who called herself something like an ‘Advanced Resolution Specialist.” (That’s probably not it, but something like that.) Finally I thought I was going to get a solution to my problem, and I was up front with her before we wasted a lot of time. I said, “I don’t need a salesman. I need Tech. Support.” She hid it at first, but ultimately she was nothing but another salesman trying to sell me on ‘Obamacare,’ while refusing to connect me with anyone who could fix my technical problem. In the end she admitted that she knew nothing about the website, but said that people like me could only have an account on Healthcare.Gov if I were to change my email address.
I’m sure you live in a different world than me, Mr President, but in my world, changing my email address would be a huge undertaking, and I have no intention of creating a ghost email that I’d have to monitor for any news from Healthcare.Gov. It’s too much to ask. So that’s where I drew the line. I refused, and like I said to the guy on Live-Chat, I guess I’ll just pay the Individual Mandate fine at tax time, and wait to die uninsured.
I wonder if I would have ever supported the law to begin with if I’d known that the only way to get coverage was to change my email address. I’m a little offended that it was even offered up as if it were a solution, rather than getting the problem fixed on that end. The worst of it is that I’ve fought this problem so long now, that I’m pretty certain what would fix it. If I could somehow get my info. removed from your system then I could start fresh, and it probably would work.
No one out of all the people I’ve talked to about this problem was willing to do that. They’d rather deny me healthcare coverage. I suppose I will just finish out the second half of my life the way I spent most of the first half; uninsured.
I’ve never done anything like write a letter to the President before, and I know you’ll never see it, but I’m going to post it on my blog, because I think it should be known who is really refusing me access to healthcare coverage.
Good luck in all your endeavors,
-Richard Moore-
Dear President Obama;
I writing to you because I don't think you'd be happy to know that people like me are being refused access to Healthcare.Gov, which means I'm essentially being denied healthcare coverage under the AAC.
First I want to congratulate you on getting the law passed. I have been an ardent supporter of the AAC from the beginning. I have a particularly fond memory of when the House took that crucial vote and passed the Senate's version of the law. I was pretty much elated, and it still ranks as one of my best memories of when my government has done something of value for me. And of course I watched the Supreme Court pretty closely, but where Republicans have failed to refuse me healthcare coverage, your bureaucrats running the program have succeeded.
I made the mistake of trying to sign up that first week enrollment was open, and I’ve been locked out of the system ever since. I’ve tried (not exaggerating) about 15 times to create an account, but the website simply won’t let me. This wouldn’t be such a big problem with really any other organization, but talking to anyone at the phone number provided is absolutely worthless. I’ve tried that about five times, and even escalated it once and demanded to speak with a supervisor, with no luck. The left hand doesn’t know what the right hand is doing, and I now understand that they are not associated with the website at all, and are therefore useless to me.
This morning I went into a dental clinic to get my teeth cleaned, and they refused to see me because my blood pressure was too high. (Something like 195 over 132) I really don’t know what that means but the woman there clearly seemed concerned. She wanted me to head over to a free clinic somewhere right then, but I had to go to work.
I did have time to take one last stab at creating an account on Healthcare.Gov, and of course it didn’t take, so this time I tried the Live-Chat option. Whoever I was live-chatting with was quite rude and dismissive of me, but finally agreed to “put in a report” (is what he called it) for me.
Quite quickly I was contacted by phone by someone who called herself something like an ‘Advanced Resolution Specialist.” (That’s probably not it, but something like that.) Finally I thought I was going to get a solution to my problem, and I was up front with her before we wasted a lot of time. I said, “I don’t need a salesman. I need Tech. Support.” She hid it at first, but ultimately she was nothing but another salesman trying to sell me on ‘Obamacare,’ while refusing to connect me with anyone who could fix my technical problem. In the end she admitted that she knew nothing about the website, but said that people like me could only have an account on Healthcare.Gov if I were to change my email address.
I’m sure you live in a different world than me, Mr President, but in my world, changing my email address would be a huge undertaking, and I have no intention of creating a ghost email that I’d have to monitor for any news from Healthcare.Gov. It’s too much to ask. So that’s where I drew the line. I refused, and like I said to the guy on Live-Chat, I guess I’ll just pay the Individual Mandate fine at tax time, and wait to die uninsured.
I wonder if I would have ever supported the law to begin with if I’d known that the only way to get coverage was to change my email address. I’m a little offended that it was even offered up as if it were a solution, rather than getting the problem fixed on that end. The worst of it is that I’ve fought this problem so long now, that I’m pretty certain what would fix it. If I could somehow get my info. removed from your system then I could start fresh, and it probably would work.
No one out of all the people I’ve talked to about this problem was willing to do that. They’d rather deny me healthcare coverage. I suppose I will just finish out the second half of my life the way I spent most of the first half; uninsured.
I’ve never done anything like write a letter to the President before, and I know you’ll never see it, but I’m going to post it on my blog, because I think it should be known who is really refusing me access to healthcare coverage.
Good luck in all your endeavors,
-Richard Moore-
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