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Friday, April 15, 2005

Off Topic: BCBS Florida sucks

Sorry for this off topic post, but I have to vent some steam since this has me totally pissed off. I was shopping around for better health insurance - which for an independent consultant isn't easy - and tried Blue Cross Blue Shield of Florida, since I liked their Blue Options plan. Being the honest person that I am, I mentioned a recent (12/04) "problem" I saw a doctor for (which I almost never do). I had a bit of a painful and slightly swollen lymph node in my throat and I went to see the doc about it. The doctor barely looked at it, touched it for perhaps 0.32 seconds and said that it was nothing. He was right, 3 or 4 days later it was gone. Now, 4 months later I get refused insurance because of a "Lymphadenopathy for which a definite cause has not been established".... This is completely insane!!!! I consider myself to be a healty person, have no problems, almost never a cold even, eat healthy, work out, etc. Just because some stupid non-issue, they deny me affordable health insurance is just simply ridiculous.