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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]She sucks at them because she is basically learning a new language in her early 40s, albeit a financial language.

From the moment I read your post, I had a feeling she came from nationalized healthcare. And I was correct.

My own husband and brother have problems navigating the insurance and medical bills issues and they have lived here all their lives. I worked as a medical billing specialist and read the entire ACA for an ethics paper.

You need to tell her where to go instead of the ER. How much is her urgent care copay? Does she have a PCP?

The registration stuff can get bad quickly. Does she drive your kids? If she gets pulled over with an expired registration or license, the car can be impounded (ask me how I know  :cry: )[/quote]

Op here. I agree. That’s why I framed this as a class/cultural thing. I’ve had the benefit of generations of education, wealth (albeit middle class, but still much more than most of the world has). The nanny has only been in America a few years. Most of her friends, neighbors, and acquaintances have the same sorts of problems and aren’t very good at helping her solve things. That’s why I try to help. I’m the only middle class educated American she knows. She doesn’t have the network to call on that I do of people who just know how the world works.

I guess it just grates on me so much when I take all this time to help her and she only half listens or doesn’t follow through.

She did get her car registered, I took leave so she could go yesterday. I didn’t even ask her how it went (trying to stay out of things more now!) but she got it done. [/quote]

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