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Are you a creative person, writer, novelist, or anyone who feels like our precious time is being wasted ironing out issues with companies? I firmly believe when one consumer fights for fairness, they help all of us. With that in mind, here’s some of what works for me, especially when I injured my knee and experienced a horribly challenging time with health insurance.
What are your tips for how to get decent service from big companies?
If your health coverage is through your employer, chances are the personnel department mediates things for you.
The rest of us like me must slug it out on our own. Before listing some of the tactics I’ve gathered which can be used anywhere and with any type of business, I owe great thanks to Obamacare.
Here in California it’s implemented as Covered California (Obamacare’s official name is the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), or the Affordable Care Act (ACA) for short.) Thanks to ObamaCare, it is illegal for insurance companies to discriminate against gender and pre-existing conditions other than tobacco use. Moreover, it ensures everyone is covered.
Note to Californians: Most know Covered California subsidizes health insurance for individuals with low incomes. (Medi-Cal helps those…
