No call

I was expecting the hospital to call today about setting up an appointment for pre-op testing but they didn't. Now I'm wondering if they'll even allow me to have an elective surgery there because I have bills from them that were sent to collections. Of course that isn't my fault but I'm sure all they see is "collections" and assume I just didn't pay. They won't bother to search into it and see that their financial office had me fill out all the paperwork to have my debts written off, which included getting certain documents notarized, because I was only on SSI at the time and getting less than $500 a month.

Maybe I should have followed up once I got the first collection letter, but I'd made numerous calls to them prior to that every time I got a statement. Each time I was assured that I had nothing to worry about, that I qualified for the financial help and my debts would be written off at both the medical hospital and the behavioural health hospital. Someone in their office dropped the ball and I wasn't being paid to do their job for them so I stopped calling.

We'll see if it comes back to bite me in the ass.

Speaking of no call...Medicare has never returned my call from earlier this month when my insurance was screwed up, even though I was guaranteed a call back within 48 hours. Seems to be the theme in American businesses today...make the consumers do all the work for free while all the employees that are supposed to be doing it because they're the fucking ones getting paid are sitting on their lazy fucking asses.