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That sounds difficult. Wouldn't it be more beneficial to find another insurance comapny?

In the US - health insurance companies are often, and possibly even usually, dictated by the employer.

Well, that sucks. It is real smart of them in Artemis' case - force to insure by your employer and your employees won't dare to fail for half the things they need care for.

haha, thanks.
I love those! Would you like to trade for doing the dishes and laundry?
I would have never known that! haha.

I thought it was funny!

Anytime!

Art, the confidentiality laws forbid them from sharing any of your information. And the insurance would not be getting the details of your therapy anyway, just the applicable codes. Likely it would be charged as x units of talk therapy for x diagnosis.

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Haven't they ever heard the line "drowned in a butt of malmsley"?

I think it's funny!

I wouldn't want my boss to know I'm in therapy if I could help it - let alone my diagnoses.

It's illegal to share confidential health information with anyone. It would be a really big deal and people would be facing criminal charges if your boss were to somehow get that information.

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But, say, he was asked to consult on something and Artemis' name popped up. I think it would technically be possible.

Well, it's the parent company, not the actual company, and even if it weren't there are safeguards against this sort of thing happening by accident. Only certain departments would have access to claims information.

And at some point you have to trust in people's integrity.

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I don't use insurance for the ones I see. I also don't buy into the "wellness" crap that gives a slight discount for letting the insurance company have more control and info about you.

I know you're right, and for the most part I do trust that the information wouldn't be used against me, but there's that niggling little voice that still says "it's none of their business so I'll pay for it myself just in case."

H asked me today why I'd received a free healthcare card in the mail (there's a maximum amount you can pay for health care through the public system in a year, and once you've hit that amount, it's free for the rest of the 12-month period, counting from your first visit). The true answer to the question is that my T is part of the system, so I only pay him what I would for a specialist MD visit, and after three visits I've hit the maximum. (I know I'm insanely lucky to have a good T who is part of the system but is still in a position to offer unlimited visits.)

Ooops. It's quite fortunate that I've had some health issues lately which I haven't actually done much about - H assumed that I'd been to see doctors about those. I didn't even have to say anything in response to the question; that's the normal way conversation works here, and often it annoys me unreasonably, but today it worked in my favour.

The boss wouldn't know. They aren't given access to that kind of information.

Sounds like the way they'd kill somebody off on Downton Abbey! Poor Pamook!

What is malmsley?

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A typo, I suspect - malmsey is a type of Madeira wine.

Ah thank you. I am relatively new to the wonderful world of wine, having recently graduated from drinking Moscato to Gewurztraminer (or however you spell it lol)

I have made up for my up-in-my-head-ness yesterday! Grocery shopping is done, last load of laundry is in the drier, and spaghetti is cooking on the stove!

In my email to t last night I told her I was going to stop trying to poem my feelings and in her response one of the things she said was to keep writing poetry. I haven't decided yet if I am going to or not at least for these current feels!

You're only 500 years or so off - it's how Clarence dies in "Richard III." Who knows if he really died that way, of course...

About insurance, all three of mine, plus the psychiatrist, none of whom take insurance, have warnings in their contracts that insurance companies have been known to abuse supposedly confidential health information, mental and physical. It's not so much a question of a boss finding out as the insurance company itself being the risk.

Hi Hope you got your work done. After my productive morning and sleepy afternoon things slowed own to a near standstill. At least I got my curtains hung up again. Still have more washing and mopping to do. I like autumn cleaning.

I don't know why for sure but this song is really speaking to me today:



Elton John "This Train don't stop there anymore" especially this part

"When I said that I don't care
It really means my engine's breaking down
The chisel chips my heart again
The granite cracks beneath my skin
I crumble into pieces on the ground"

man if I could write like that!!!!!!!