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new year, new test
I had a colonoscopy and endoscopy last week. The anesthesia and procedure made me not so hot for a few days but I am glad I did it. Do not ignore doing this. It was the test I was the … Continue reading
rise up
It started with a message from a friend: ** Please Consider Calling / E-mailing for Obamacare** Paul Ryan’s office is conducting a phone poll, hoping to hear overwhelming opposition to the Affordable Care Act. Here’s how you can participate: Call … Continue reading
Posted in breast cancer, health insurance
Tagged breast cancer, obamacare, paul ryan, rise up
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targeting target for breast cancer profiteering
Dear Target, I hate Pinktober. It is a vomitorious b*llshit pink month for a lot of us who have had breast cancer, or are currently undergoing treatment, or live with the metastatic form of the disease. Take your shirt for … Continue reading
Posted in breast cancer, health insurance
Tagged Aetna, boycott target, breast cancer, brian cornell, CNN, fox news, Hoda Kotb, janna potts, jeffrey j jones II, john mulligan, MSNBC, new york times, target, target corporation
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aetna is totally screwing individual subscribers and breast cancer survivors/patients
I wrote recently about groundhog day with Aetna . Sadly, the truth is that Aetna doesn’t want individual subscribers in Pennsylvania any longer. They say they value their subscribers, but really, they don’t. They are over us. (Bastards.) Being an individual subscriber off … Continue reading
Posted in breast cancer, health insurance
Tagged #AETNASUCKS, Aetna, Obamacare sucks, Pinktober
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groundhog day with aetna
I saw the envelope in my mailbox from Aetna today. And I knew, I just knew based on the kind of envelope it was what the contents were. Yup. You got it. Groundhog day health insurer style. At the end … Continue reading
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Tagged #AETNASUCKS, Aetna, bloomberg news, class action suit against Aetna, consumeraffairs.com, new york times, philadelphia inquirer, pissedconsumer.com, problems with Aetna, Senator Bernie Sanders, Senator Elizabeth Warren, wall street journal, washington post
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n.e.d. is my friend
Five years. It’s official. I am FIVE years cancer free. N.E.D. or No Evidence of Disease. Yay!!!!!!!!!
five years
Tomorrow is a very emotionally loaded day for me. And it’s not because my high school reunion weekend is starting again , it’s because it was five years ago tomorrow I received my breast cancer diagnosis from Dr. Dahlia Sataloff … Continue reading
sometimes big business can pleasantly surprise you
The other day I wrote about my latest go round with my health insurance company, Aetna. In all fairness I must do a brief update. So after my last post I was frustrated enough that I Googled and Googled until … Continue reading
new year, same aetna
UPDATE 1/42016: NEW YEAR NEW SUCKITUDE. Spent over 30 minutes on muzak hold to get the Philippines where they know nothing, can’t help you and can only read a script. They land me another 30 minutes on hold until I … Continue reading
Posted in breast cancer, health insurance
Tagged #AETNASUCKS, Aetna, aetna on Facebook, aetna on twitter, Karen S. Lynch, Mark T. Bertolini
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quoted on the current mammogram crisis in america
shee·ple SHēpəl/ noun informalderogatory plural noun: sheeple people compared to sheep in being docile, foolish, or easily led. “by the time the sheeple wake up and try to change things, it will be too late” I have never been … Continue reading