Open enrollment has just started at my place of employment. I thought it was bad before, but how on earth do you make sense of your options when you're dealing with something like cancer.
Do you change plans, and risk turning your treatment plan on it's head, or do you stick with the provider you've got so as to stay on the same path?
How do you decide which provider provides the best option when you have no idea what phase two of your protocol is? Presumably, the oncologists have something in mind for when the chemotherapy stops, don't they?
Presumably, the one-year plan is going to be different from the five-year plan or the ten-year plan. But how do you decide which provider is the best fit for your plan when you don't know which option you're going to get?
It was bad enough as a diabetic, but as a diabetic cancer patient, making sense of the options is asking a lot.
Ah, who am I kidding? I'm going to do what I always do: ignore the issue entirely until enough time passes that the choice is made for me, at which point I'll just complain about whatever was built into that default option.
So here's my addendum: Open enrollment is a tool of the devil.
As Kevin Drum,* tongue firmly planted in cheek, repeatedly asserts, "Best healthcare in the world, baby."
* Political blogger extraordinaire, currently affiliated with Mother Jones.
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