California Politicians....

California idiocy:

If you complain about the water shortage and then approve tens of thousands new homes, you just might be a California politician.

If you mandate tankless water heaters as an energy saver but don’t understand they waste water, you just might be a California politician.

If you increase water prices to build a reservoir and dam because of the drought but never build it because it rains a few times, you just might be a California politician.

If you lament the power grid shortages and lack of electricity and approve unbridled development, you just might be a California politician.

If you mandate solar power on new homes but the CPUC allows electric companies to institute Time of Use rates that cost more when solar is not producing, you just might be a California politician.

If you allow unbridled development in wildfire prone areas but won’t live there, you just may be a California politician.

If you raise the gas tax and vehicle registration fees for road improvements and spend the money elsewhere, you just might be a California politician.

If you raise taxes and fees on the public while getting a big raise in your salary, you just might be a California politician.

If you see illegal immigration as a way to get more votes, you just might be a California politician.

If you push high speed rail from where nobody wants to be to where nobody wants to go, you just might be a California politician.

If you raise taxes for public transit but don’t ride a bus or train, you just might be a California politician.

If you decry traffic and pollution but ride in a chauffeured limo to work, you just might be a California politician.

If you see increases in public safety a waste of funds but whine when first responders aren’t at your door in an emergency, you just might be a California politician.

If you think climate change is completely the Republicans fault, you just might be a California politician.

If you approve toilet to tap for drinking water, but live where you don’t have to drink it, you just might be a California politician.

If you vote to control opioids but also vote to legalize marijuana, you just might be a California politician.

If you never saw a tax or fee you didn’t like, you just might be a California politician.

If giving public funds and aid to illegals is more important than helping our homeless, you just might be a California politician.

If you only consider senior citizen and veterans important at election time, you just might be a California politician.

If you think protests that cause damage and mayhem are okay as long as they are not directed at you, you just may be a California politician.

If you think First Amendment free speech is just for liberals, you just may be a California politician.

If you are against people owning guns but have a gun permit yourself, you just may be a California politician.  

HealthNet is becoming HealthNut

Let's say you become ill right after January 1 (This flu season has been horrible) and need to see a doctor, have X-rays, tests and maybe more. So you make an appointment and show up and then are told you don't have health coverage. WTF? So they allow you as a long time patient to sign an agreement to pay for the service if the insurance does not. You go for tests and X-rays and then get the same story...you don't have coverage and will have to pay for your services out of pocket. WTF?

Facts are that HealthNet did not update their computer system so that subscribers would actually be shown to have coverage as of the first of the year. And, to compound the issues, HealthNet changed everyone's ID number so that the old number is invalid, and it takes an act of congress to get the new number. And their "old" web site shows you have no coverage and directs you to a new web site that you need to start all over signing in, etc. And that shows you have coverage but under an invalid ID number. Aha, but it doesn't end there.

A month later, in February,  they still had not updated their database and puhed it out to the doctors and other providers. To add insult to injury HealthNet sent out new ID cards with the OLD ID number, making them worse than useless at the doctors or other care providers.

Their customer service just plain sucks. They promise to send materials and do not. Ask for materials on their web site and nothing. I think they use call centers somewhere that are staffed by  morons or at least people who don't take their jobs seriously.

Yes, their head office will give you a number to call and they run you around yet again with no solution. They promise to have the issues corrected within a week or so but have failed to do so.

My suggestion is to stay as far away from HealthNet as you can if you have to choose a plan, any plan! Because their lack of action and foresight will drive you nuts. And if you have this problem, contact everyone you can. If you are on Medicare file a complaint. Complain to consumer affairs and the Better Business Bureau. After all this is not some freebie...we pay for this lousy service.