Re: Viagra & higher Mathematics at the insurance company.

["Hawkins, Darwin" <Darwin.Hawkins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Boy, I would settle for 4 times a month. That would be great!!!!!!

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> From:         George J. Lussier[SMTP:glussier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent:         Saturday, July 10, 1999 2:59 AM
> To:   Multiple recipients of list PARKINSN
> Subject:      Viagra & higher Mathematics at the insurance company.
>
> Dear Colleagues,
>    For several years, prior to my staged Bilateral Pallidotomy, I had
> struggled with my sexuality or lack there of and even when I had the
> surgery I was a tad behind my peers. It was like I was on the right
> golf course [Hi there Edie!]but for some reason I was dressed for
> tennis. Close but no cigar. So off I went to the Urologists, who are a
> happy bunch....always cracking jokes, and I tried the "insert" and the
> "inject". Nope, didn't work. Tried the "lope" and began to wonder if
> there were age limits among the Trappists monks. But I don't give up
> easily so I wrangled myself a script for 5 Viagra "Treatments"
> [pills]. And they worked!! I won't bore you with the details but they
> worked!!
>    And now comes the really hard part. My insurance company declares
> that it will only pay for 12 "treatments" [pills]in any 90 day period
> That's bad enough but they then apply their understanding of higher
> mathematics by including MY co-pay as a part of THEIR payment.
>    In real terms my 12 "treatments" [pills] cost me $45[$15 co-pay for
> 3 scripts. You can only have 4 a month that they will "cover". Of
> course you can have as many as you can afford at $9+ a pop.] The cost
> to them is about $63; not the $108 it would cost them if they didn't
> count MY $45 as part of THEIR payment.
>    What am I missing?
>        george
> Amazing grace! How sweet the sound
>     that saved a wretch like me!
>     I once was lost, but now am found;
>     was blind, but now I see.
>
> glussier@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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