So, to make today just plain wonderful...
Training for the new job role. SHould be simpler than what I have been doing, but MUCH faster time expectations, and the client is apparently and absolute ^&*^() about details in QA evaluations.
Turns out that rather than our insurance being in effect till the end of the month, it was cancelled on the 17th... I am pretty sure we had paid our portion through the end of the month, given how insurance billing works...
-THis means we will almost certainly be getting a bill for several hundred dollars for the medications we filled last week. No copays, don't ya know...
When I went to finalise insurance for us to replace it (figuring we can survive the two weeks without, it is almost over) I realized that I can't make an informed choice as to which plan to select without knowing what the premiums will be and what the copays and deductibles will be, due to Advanced pretax credit and Cost share reduction.
In order to find out what those will be, I needed to update my wife's income information for unemployment, it is higher than I estimated, as at the time we had not received notification... The higher value will mean lower APTC and CSR, so Higher premiums, copays, and deductibles.
So I updated it. THis moved the effective date out to JUNE 1
talk about a catch 22. If I didn't update it, the cost and benefits would worsen when I did. So by updating it I screwed myself out of a month's coverage.
WA state Healthcarefinder.org only has customer support available until 6:00 PM!!!!!!
Great, so now I get to go a month without insurance. Assuming I don't get hacked again, I should be able to afford paying out of pocket for the absolutely necessary medications I am on...
DAMNIT!
I know my parents did not make my middle name JOB....
I did a fast walk of a mile, up and down my driveway a couple times. Now I am not quite as tempted to drive my fist through a wall, or something even less practical and appropriate...