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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I sympathize with you, APS teachers on Kaiser. It is not easy to find new doctors right now, but they’re out there. Good news is that this is likely a one time switch- most practices around here participate in many of the big plans.

As hard as this is, you not winning any supporters with this. Stop trying to get the parents to do your bidding for you. It’s unprofessional. The Board has a fiduciary duty to the taxpayers to ensure that the benefits that are being provided to you are being obtained at a reasonable cost commensurate with market rates. Insurance plans cost a whole lot more than the small fraction you individually pay.

Additionally - All of us in corporate land have been through insurer changes, along with massive YoY increases in premiums or deductibles, and limits on service. You are being offered what appears to be a great plan at a competitive cost. Stop threatening to quit or call out for days on end unless you’d like to come experience employer coverage out here in the wild.

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Or maybe, just maybe we CARE about the kids we teach and feel bad that we will have to take days off because we know it sucks, but it is also the only way we are given.  It isn’t a threat, just the reality of what we are facing.  [/quote]
This has nothing to do with insurance plans changing. I know some people are asking for more days off to "look for more doctors" That's nonsense. Most of this can be done online at any time of day. Even if not, our contract hours allow for phone calls. [/quote]

No, my kid needs to be brought to a doctor so her multiple therapies can be approved.  I need to take medicine for a chronic condition. I suppose after being in Kaiser for 20 years, I could be out of it, but I doubt a doctor will just approve and write a prescription without ever seeing me.  I can pick a doctor out online, in fact I already have on the BCBS website.  That doesn’t mean I can get him to prescribe meds sight unseen.  We have to SEE the doctor and that can’t be done outside of contract hours. 
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Ok, so two new appointments (one for you and one for your daughter) doesn’t seem like that big of a deal.

You’re acting like you’re going to have thousands of appointments. A bit melodramatic.

(Your daughter may have multiple therapy appointments, but wouldn’t that also be the case if you still had Kaiser?)[/quote]

Each therapist usually needs an intake appointment which is at a weird time so they can “test” your kid in whatever they deem necessary and get to know history and your kid then you can set appointments on a regular basis.  Keep in mind we can only take half days from 9-12 or 12-4 so if you get a 10:30-1:00 appointment it turns into the whole day because the first time you go to a doctor you don’t know if it is the kind of office that is always running late.  So it usually ends up being a whole day or else you don’t have coverage.  That is up to 4 days for my kid (one general doc and each therapist) and 1 for me, of course I will try my best to take half days, but if Kaiser was still going, it would be zero because we wouldn’t need all the intake appointments.

Sorry, if it is “melodramatic” but yeah that is a lot of time off during a testing month Dibels and pals. [/quote]

So take the days off. The world is full of cemeteries the world couldn’t do without.

It’s not that hard finding an appointment that’s not at 10:30. [/quote]

Think you messed up the quote. Cemeteries are full of people the world couldn’t do without?

Get your point though.[/quote]

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