NW-Bound
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I have worked with computers all my career, building both hardware and writing software. Computers are useful, but they can do only what programmers tell them to do. And when the programmer f***s up, and his computer messes up, sometimes it takes an act of God to clear it up.
Case in point: I have been paying my healthcare insurance premium online, and always on time. Then, suddenly one day I received a letter from them saying they were letting my healthcare providers know that I was a deadbeat and they would soon stop processing my claims. What the hell! And then another letter, and another...
I went back to their Web site, and the payment history page showed all the payments that I made. Yet, on the account balance page, it showed I was behind. It took several phone calls, and the agents all could see that discrepancy. They all promised to put in an order to credit my account with the missing payments.
Here I am, two months later, just getting off the phone with another agent to get this problem fixed. Gosh! When a wrong record is entered into the computer, God helps you.
Imagine if it is something more serious, like SS records, IRS tax files, credit bureau records, etc... If you are wrongly labeled as a miscreant, a deadbeat, tax evader, rapist, murderer, good luck getting it cleared.
The f***king computers rule!
It was a lot of time and aggravation for me to get them to process the claims, of which they are still paying nothing because I am still under the annual deductible. But if they do not process the claims, I will have to pay full freight to my healthcare providers because I do not get the negotiated rates. What a racket!
I have worked with computers all my career, building both hardware and writing software. Computers are useful, but they can do only what programmers tell them to do. And when the programmer f***s up, and his computer messes up, sometimes it takes an act of God to clear it up.
Case in point: I have been paying my healthcare insurance premium online, and always on time. Then, suddenly one day I received a letter from them saying they were letting my healthcare providers know that I was a deadbeat and they would soon stop processing my claims. What the hell! And then another letter, and another...
I went back to their Web site, and the payment history page showed all the payments that I made. Yet, on the account balance page, it showed I was behind. It took several phone calls, and the agents all could see that discrepancy. They all promised to put in an order to credit my account with the missing payments.
Here I am, two months later, just getting off the phone with another agent to get this problem fixed. Gosh! When a wrong record is entered into the computer, God helps you.
Imagine if it is something more serious, like SS records, IRS tax files, credit bureau records, etc... If you are wrongly labeled as a miscreant, a deadbeat, tax evader, rapist, murderer, good luck getting it cleared.
The f***king computers rule!
It was a lot of time and aggravation for me to get them to process the claims, of which they are still paying nothing because I am still under the annual deductible. But if they do not process the claims, I will have to pay full freight to my healthcare providers because I do not get the negotiated rates. What a racket!
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