@Lola,
Quote: you learn pretty quick that when it comes to insurance companies, the plan is about the bottom line being profit at all costs
You know of any private business where that's not true? No one stays in business very long without showing profits.
Quote:For the insurance industry, the best mental health patient is a dead patient.
I doubt that--health insurance companies don't make any money from the dead. They want us alive, helping to support them, and not costing them anything. And I'd rather see them pushing Cognitive Behavior Therapy, which does have demonstrated effectiveness, for things like depression and anxiety, then colluding with Big Pharma to push pills on everyone.
And thank Norman Vincent Peale for the power of positive thinking tack, the insurers didn't come up with that one either.
The packet they sent you was just silly, and the timing, for you, to get that sort of stuff couldn't have been worse. If they really want to cheer people up, they should sent copies of the Monty Python clip that vonny posted.
What drives me crazy are all the charities that waste money by constantly sending me address labels, and note pads, and greeting cards, one regularly also sends me nickels, and then they ask for money. Well, if they'd stop wasting so much money with all these mailings, and freebies, I'd be inclined to send them more.
Life is pretty absurd. Without a sense of humor about it, we'd all be sunk.
