Klarinet Archive - Posting 000110.txt from 2006/08

From: "catkeel" <catkeel@-----.net>
Subj: Re: [kl] Clarinetfest
Date: Sat, 05 Aug 2006 21:52:31 -0400

Yep,they only want to bet on a sure bet.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce M" <bmcgar@-----.com>
To: <klarinet@-----.org>
Sent: Saturday, August 05, 2006 9:44 PM
Subject: Re: [kl] Clarinetfest

> Folks,
>
> Be VERY careful about asking your doctor for Xanex or similar drugs. My
> doctor offered TWO tablets of an anti-anxiety drug for use on a flight IF
> I decided I needed them (which I never did) a few years ago. A year later,
> after I was downsized from a company and my COBRA ran out, and I tried to
> get health insurance on my own, I was put in the "high risk" category by
> BC/BS because of this prescription, and would have had to pay $1400/month
> for insurance.
>
> A letter from my doctor stating that I was perfectly healthy for a man my
> age, and would be a very low risk meant nothing. The response from BC/BS
> was, in effect, "We don't care. The rule is that, if you're prescribed a
> drug like this, you're high risk, no matter what. Ask us again in two
> years." I went without any insurance for 18 months because I couldn't
> afford it. Thank goodness I didn't get sick!
>
> So be careful about asking for prescription drugs (especially
> tranquillizers or other drugs used by psychiatrists). Your doctor's
> records may be used against you at some point when you can least afford
> it.
>
> Now, even though I have insurance, before my doctor prescribes any drug
> that may not be absolutely essential, I check with BC/BS anonymously to
> see if filling the prescription might put me in a high-risk category, and
> if it does, and I can get along without it, I do so.
>
> A sad state of affairs, but insurance companies hate any risk, so they tar
> everyone with the same brush.
>
> Bruce
>
>
>>From: "David Lamb" <dlamb@-----.com>
>>Reply-To: klarinet@-----.org
>>To: <klarinet@-----.org>
>>Subject: Re: [kl] Clarinetfest
>>Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2006 17:32:11 -0700
>>
>>
>>Mark C.
>>
>>>Oh. I remembered that you were planning to go and told all of us you were
>>>scared _then_. I figurde you should do whatever you've done in the past
>>>to get over your fear of flying.
>>
>>Two words: Take drugs! I would not get on a plane without Xanex. I
>>sleep through the flight, and my wife is spared having to sit next to a
>>terrified, white-knuckle idiot.
>>
>>David Lamb in Seattle
>>
>>
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