Insurance companies fascinate me, and not in a positive way, or a creepy fetish way if anyone thinks that's where I was going. I just think that the way they think is fascinating.
Yesterday was my birthday, and happy birthday to me I got to have a mammogram and ultrasound on the breast that doesn't have breast cancer. I am aware that they found a few questionable spots that the doctor wants to get a better look at. They weren't as large and obvious as the one that I had removed so the doctor ordered an MRI (happy birthday, you get an MRI!).
So I got a call from the nurse telling me that it wasn't going to be approved this week but she was working with the insurance company to get the MRI approved. Which makes me think, um, insurance company, don't you think that it would be better to get all of this out of the way now so that we don't have to worry about it getting worse and more expensive in the future. You are already aware of the fact that I have breast cancer, why wouldn't you go, yeah, lets get a look at it, and if possible remove it to make sure that we don't have to worry about the expenses in the future.
But then, maybe they're hopping it will just get worse and I'll die, then it's the life insurance policy that has to pay as opposed to the health insurance. Now, I'm know it wouldn't be as quick or drastic as that, but still, arguing that an individual with a history of breast cancer shouldn't get a breast MRI is a little silly to me.
