Friday, July 28, 2006
Private Health
A couple of days ago we ran into a friend of ours - whose wife just happens to be Kylie. At the start of the pregnancy we placed a lot of faith in the public health system, but our friend said we'd be mad not to go private if we've paid for it.
So we phoned our health insurance provider and got all the details. To enter the private system you need to have an obstetrician. Then you go visit the obstetrician, hand over a wad of cash and it's all pretty much sorted. So I'm told.
The problem is finding an obstetrician with roughly five weeks to spare. Apparently it's impossible. With indemnity insurance costs the way they are obstetrics is not so attractive a field any more, Libby went from A-Z in the obstetrics list for our insurance company. You know that stupid saying: It's always in the last place you look? Well, Dr Tam was the last place we could look.
So we have one of those.
That's good. I suppose.
So we phoned our health insurance provider and got all the details. To enter the private system you need to have an obstetrician. Then you go visit the obstetrician, hand over a wad of cash and it's all pretty much sorted. So I'm told.
The problem is finding an obstetrician with roughly five weeks to spare. Apparently it's impossible. With indemnity insurance costs the way they are obstetrics is not so attractive a field any more, Libby went from A-Z in the obstetrics list for our insurance company. You know that stupid saying: It's always in the last place you look? Well, Dr Tam was the last place we could look.
So we have one of those.
That's good. I suppose.
# posted by Sherlock @ 9:08 PM 
