Off Subject Today

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I've had and interesting week to say the least. I somehow have hurt my knee which is making it difficult to walk. So I made an appointment to visit the orthopedic Dr. in my area (so I thought).

I got to the Dr.'s office at the time requested to fill out all of the paperwork which was a minimum of 10 pages only to find out that my appointment was elsewhere. When making the appointment, no one once asked me where in the Houston area did I live.

"Excactly where am I suppose to be? .....I thought my appointment was at this facility"

" No, but let me look it up for you......I'm sorry the Dr. that they booked you with is in Katy, TX." An hour away!!

Fortunately, this is a really good clinic and somehow worked me in to see the orthopedic Dr. He made a diagnosis that my meniscule needs to be looked at by way of MRI and quickly handed me over the the tech to make the appointment. Wonderful!!, let's get this pain removed as quickly as possible.....sounds so good and maybe would have been the senerio 5 years ago. I received a phone call from the Drs. office this morning and they had to cancel my appt. because my insurance company feels that I should be on Advil for a minimum of 2 weeks and then a follow up with the Dr. before they will approve my MRI. I guess this is what we have to look forward to with the new "health care" that is in our future. It will be up to someone else to determine your physical welfare who has not even seen you or knows the pain that you are in to determine if you can have the nesessary procedures your DOCTOR asks for you. Live with the pain for a minimum of 2 weeks on the "approved" list of OTC meds that we, the insurance co., requires of you and then maybe we will approve your MRI or maybe will just send you to therapy regardless of the pain.

To this I say "THANK YOU, reid, pelosi and obama". This is the hope and change the American people asked for!!?? You passed the bill and now we get to "see what is in it"......It STINKS!!!!