Smart or Stupid? Only Time Will Tell

Open enrollment ended on Friday and I had to decide whether to stick with Group Health or switch over to Regence. It was basically a choice between inexpensive, convenient health care, that carried with it no attempt to actually cure my cancer, or expensive, inconvenient health care, that might -- emphasis on might -- have something better to offer in terms of treating the cancer.

I went with the complicated, expensive option.

I'm not actually convinced it was the smart choice, but nearly everyone I talk to disagrees. Others seem to have a lot more faith in the local cancer centers than I do.

So I'll finish out the year with Group Health -- and finish out my remaining cycles of chemo -- and then see what SCCA, Swedish, Virginia Mason and any of the other cancer centers in the Regence network have to offer. 

If it's just wait for the cancer to come back and then stat the chemo back up, I'll know I made the wrong choice. But if someone has something other than chemo to offer up, it'll have been the right one. Or maybe I'm kidding myself, and I'm facing the same situation as the cow.

Guess we'll find out in January.