So, I signed up for the dinky little school offered insurance because mine ran out when I turned 24. I have some pre-existing stuff, so nearly my only hope of ever being insured now will be through the school or a prospective employer. Obviously, RAs at the Aacademy don’t get any benefits at all.
Therefore, I got my little insurance sheet from my mom when it applied in the mail and trekked down like a good little student to the Office of the Registrar to get it validated so I could have money for some prescriptions. The exchange went a little bit like this:
ME: Hey, I need to have this signed for my insurance.
DUDE: Okay. Usually we do that ourselves and just fax it. Is that okay?
ME: Sure. Do you think it would be faster? It has to get there by the 30th or I won’t get any coverage.
DUDE: We can try, but really it’ll just get there when it gets there.
ME: Well, I really need to have it there by the 30th.. could you maybe put a note on it or something?
DUDE: Seriously? A note’s not going to do anything. If you wanted it to get there in time, you shouldn’t have come 9 days before it was due.
ME: I didn’t get it until a day or two ago..
DUDE: Not according to the date on the letter
ME: (at this point stunned into silence by his utter inability to understand that snail mail takes a while to get places. I really did get it like a day or so before.) …. Okay.. so no note even to make me feel better?
DUDE: (frustrated) It’ll get there when it gets there! (walks off)
Well, guys, it never got there. That exchange was three weeks ago. You had more than enough time by now to get it there. I got a letter from the Insurance company two or three days ago saying my coverage was denied because they never got validation from the school. Now I owe a bunch of money for my prescriptions and you guys are a bunch of dicks. I wouldn’t be surprised if the dude just crumpled up my paperwork and tossed it into the trash. Argh.
