{"id":188908,"date":"2010-07-11T12:58:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-11T17:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/07\/11\/penny-wise-and-pound-foolish\/"},"modified":"2010-07-11T12:58:00","modified_gmt":"2010-07-11T17:58:00","slug":"penny-wise-and-pound-foolish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2010\/07\/11\/penny-wise-and-pound-foolish\/","title":{"rendered":"Penny Wise and Pound Foolish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, Sharon<sup>*<\/sup> spent 6 hours in the emergency room with <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">severe<\/span> chest pains.<\/p>\n<p>It turned out that it was her long-standing problems with acid reflux, so it was not a heart <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">attack<\/span>, it was heart <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">burn<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Well, because of Sharon&#8217;s<sup>*<\/sup> sensitivities, allergies, and odd interactions between her body chemistry and drugs, there is currently only one drug on the market, the proton pump inhibitor Dexilant, on the market which can address this.<\/p>\n<p>She&#8217;s tried all the other ones, and they don&#8217;t work, but the insurance company drones have decided that it&#8217;s a good idea to deny the authorization to save a few bucks.<\/p>\n<p>We are appealing.<\/p>\n<p>How many f$#@ing trips to the ER with symptoms of a heart attack, which they cover at 100% does it take to wipe out any savings?<\/p>\n<p>Well, let me give you a hint,we have <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">already<\/span> blown through that with the <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">first<\/span> trip to the ER.<\/p>\n<p>Not enough bullets.<\/p>\n<p><sup>*<\/sup><span style=\"font-size:78%;\">Love of my life, light of the  cosmos, <span style=\"font-variant: small-caps; font-weight: bold;\"><span>she  who must be obeyed<\/span><\/span>, my wife.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, Sharon* spent 6 hours in the emergency room with severe chest pains. It turned out that it was her long-standing problems with acid reflux, so it was not a heart attack, it was heart burn. Well, because of Sharon&#8217;s* sensitivities, allergies, and odd interactions between her body chemistry and drugs, there is currently &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1013,969,976,1046,1045,979],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-188908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drugs","category-evil","category-family","category-healthcare","category-insurance","category-wanker"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}