Hi, y’all. Sorry I’ve been quiet for a little while. I’ve been fighting thru the health stuff and nobody wants to hear how bad it is all the time.
I’m going to have to have an endoscopy soon. 🙁 I don’t know anyone in real life who has had one and could share what it was like…but I’m so scared I’ll choke to death or something. 🙁
Since we last met…
Can y’all believe gas is a $1.75?
We voted early. I jokingly said to the fam / friends that I didn’t want to hear what they had to say about anything political in nature unless they had a sticker on their shirt. I was joking then but I think that’s gonna be my new thing…if you can’t produce your “I Voted” sticker…I’m not interested in anything you have to say. 😉
On the same topic…have y’all been watching the debates? I tried but didn’t last long before thinking…
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The birthday cake I made didn’t turn out all that great so it was Cheesecake Factory to the rescue. 🙂
So good. 🙂
Took Papa B out to buy a new golf cart. He got the blue one.
What in the name of all that’s good and right is this? The past couple years I did buy some of the special limited time ‘designer’ stuff at Target…but this? Seriously y’all if you see this in person touch it and open it up to see the button situation. Is it a coat? A tunic? A prison dress? And why is the fabric so rough? Judging by the amount of stuff still sitting on the racks…epic designer fail this year, Target.
If you read the old blog you know that Mama B is having to do a low acid way of eating. I bought some test strips to test out stuff and made us all test our saliva. We were all between 5 and 9 (that’s good…the higher the better). I’ve been going around testing everything though.
Now I’m gonna have a little rant so some of you might wanna peace out here. 🙂
When I was in grad school I had switched to a new lower cost high deductible insurance plan 2 weeks before getting my Lupus diagnosis…and was then immediately marked with a preexisting condition. I was stuck with that high deductible plan until the Affordable Care Act passed and got rid of preexisting condition jail.
So the ACA passes and I’m finally able to get a lower deductible and just overall better coverage. A plan I pay for 100% out of pocket with ZERO help from tax rebates or whatever it’s called. Move on along anyone who wants to start screaming about your tax dollars and my health care. If you would like to take over paying my premiums then and only then will I be interested in your thoughts. This year I’ve had the best insurance I’ve ever had in my life. My premium was around $300 a month.
On Sunday the rates and plans for 2016 were released and to my shock (though apparently it had been in the news for a while) there wasn’t ONE traditional PPO plan available at all. Only HMO’s and some EPO thing that’s supposed to be like an HMO with a little PPO mixed in. I live in a small town and there is literally not ONE primary care doctor available in my town on any of the plans. Not one. (Which doesn’t matter to me because I’ve driven 2 hours away to see my current primary care doctor and would self pay whatever I have to pay to see her) but that’s really not the point. The lowest priced HMO plan with the same deductible I’ve got now is $100 more. A hundred dollars more to have almost no choice in my care? To have to beg to see a specialist? And to then have to just settle for whichever doctor is on the limited list of doctors? No thank you, Blue Cross.
It’s one thing, Blue Cross and Aetna if you want to limit the plans available for those getting tax help but to penalize those of us who are straight up paying you? Yeah, again no thank you.
I did find ONE company offering an off exchange PPO plan that I will most likely be switching to. It’s $140 more a month but to keep my doctors I’ll just have to make it work.
If y’all hear of any class action lawsuits over this drop me an email thru the contact form. 🙂
Ok I’ll stop here for now. Hope y’all are having a good week. 🙂
See you soon. 🙂