the crap hit the fan…

My mother called the school insurance this company without my knowledge and they claim to have no knowledge of any changes in Wake’s policy that would lead to me being covered under their policy. then she called the school. Praise God, the Dean was not in is office with my mother in her battle mode state.

I walked into the office of student services in attempts to do some damage control.  The secetary smiled at me, “Your Mom called.” “I know” I said. My cheeks a flaming color of red. One of the school officials who not the Dean who has e-mailed me 50 times to say he is working on it and I will be covered (he is out of town comes out to meet me) “Yeah we are thinking about changing our policy in light of all you and several others who have issues with the policy but nothing will happen until at least Jan.” She smiles and continues. “Students don’t understand insurance companies and how hard it is for the school. You would think” she said, “It would be easy to insure healthy 20 year olds.”

I met her eyes again and smiled the biggest fake smile I could muster. I fought with everything I had not to scream at the top of my voice that not all 20 year olds are perfectly healthy! And despite what the insurance industry seems to think not all of those imperfect 20 year olds are going to sit at home incapacitated. Some of them go to medical school. Jan would be too late, my insurance would lapse. Too little too late, did they hope that I would just go away and not be their problem? I realize that I put the school in an uncomfortable position between discriminating against a minority student and raising the premiums for all the others. At the same time  Did she ever think of how hard this was for me? Had she ever tried to pay out of pocket for her medical care on a student budget? She should  try it some time. and then whine about how little students know about insurance. a little cheap sympathy would be nice and you know what would be even nicer, the TRUTH, its obvious that everyone in that office has known that this wasn’t going to work out by the Dec 31st deadline for at least a week or two yet I have gotten encouraging e-mails saying it would . But I didn’t say any of this to her, I smiled and told her thank you for her time and left.

I called my mother back and told her that the expensive cobra was only option. We admitted defeat on all fronts.

I am so angry at Wake Forest right now i can’t even see straight. But I don’t really think there is much I can do considering the people I would be writing letters about or such will write my Dean’s letter.  They have me cornered and they know it.