Catbert's revenge

In the US, health benefits are tied to your gainful and often full-time employment. Once every few years I actually can be arsed to find the mound of paperwork and the corresponding cards to use so I can go get my teeth drilled on or get a physical. Last week the eye centre actually took my card and found that I could have 50% of the cost of the glasses and the eye exam covered by my health insurance which was a revelation to me after all these years of never using it.

I must have jinxed the coverage as I was very enthused by this and prodded Jarkko to go get his vision checked and see about new glasses. This morning the eye centre called and mentioned that the insurance coverage was no longer valid. Half-jokingly I asked if he had been fired on Friday and just forgot to mention this detail over the weekend. Well, apparently some mass paperwork fiasco is at foot here and we both are employed full-time yet suddenly find ourselves without any medical coverage. To say that I'm annoyed is an understatement. This is the same HR department who had no information the day I and others were informed that we were now working for HP instead of Nokia.

I mean, why should they care if you die in the ER on a Saturday night due to invalid health insurance and other people with valid health insurance are ahead of you? It happens.