Kaiser Permanente — You’re Fired!

How awful does an insurance company have to be before you get excited for open enrollment?

I bit an apple absent-mindedly and suddenly felt …Odd. Being pulled rip-roaringly into the present I ran to the bathroom mirror and sure enough, a crown was loose.

Thank God for medical coverage! I picked up my phone, went to the KP app, and tried to schedule an emergency appointment at a dentist’s office near me. But there were none to be had. Eventually, I called the voice customer line and they were not able to get me an emergency appointment for eleven days. I had just recently moved to this city, though, so I asked if there were any in my previous city. Finally, I was able to get an emergency appointment in 1 day, provided I drove the 70 minutes it would take to get there.

The appointment itself was uneventful. The crown was reattached to my tooth with the accompanying warnings that it could fail and that I would need to establish a treatment plan. I mentioned my move to the new city and they offered to set up an appointment to establish care, and subsequently the plan.

But they couldn’t.

The appointment book for dentist offices in my city was so full there were no appointments available for three months. But the appointment book…