Insurance imbroglio

Hopefully the following lines of poetry
convince thee dear reader
(ravenous for my work - ha)
why both of us
(yours truly and the missus)
experienced figuratively being
hot under the collar
with a ring around it.

After donning my invisible thinking cap
and basically, desperately, futilely

trying to communicate

with a financial hardship plea

to Advanced Dermatology,

Keystone First member services,

and calling Medicare member services

(I cannot remember

the exact order

which representative got contacted first,

second, and third,

but all the calls nevertheless

seemed to be in vein)

and presented a classic example

what seemed like getting the runaround

hopelessly trying to piece together,

how the situation came to pass

that saddled a young looking elderly

married couple, id est

for the unprecedented

amount of thirty years

which male counterpart

constitutes the writer of these words,

which for us poor folks amount

accrued into a flagrant exhorbitant

non-negotiable outrageous charge
of seven hundred and twenty dollars
purportedly for an

anesthesia service-doctor generated charge

after the missus underwent

her appointment with Advanced Dermatology

this past January twenty first

merely a routine dermatological medical procedure

that neither Keystone First nor Medicare

refused to pick up the tab

thus you bet your bottom dollar

and sweet bippy

either one of us
(myself and the missus) didst hollar
from here to kingdom come
found me physically,
and mentally exhausted
after spending countless
hours over the phone yesterday
waiting on hold
for what seemed like an eternity
patiently waiting for this, that
or the other person
(on the other end)
to pepper us being asked
a barrage of questions
explaining that the wife
happened to be enrolled
in Keystone First

iterated above at the time

January 21st, 2026

I patiently listened

and interjected questions

every now and again

after unsuccessfully trying

to explain to the best of my ability

to an insurance representative

that the wife happened

to be enlisted

in the aforementioned

former insurance plan,

and switched over to the latter,

two month later on March first

to Aetna Medicare

Advantra Dual Care (Hmo D-Snp)

as a last ditch effort

the bill got sent to us,

thus I considered

the matter unsatisfactorily resolved,

and fought tooth and nail

come hell and/or high water

(remember that heavy rainfall

a couple days ago,
the one that rivalled great flood
necessitating Noah to build
in a haste his Ark?)
for the individual

or unanimous decision

trying my to rescind the

COB Coordination of Benefits decision

denial decided on June seventeenth

two thousand and twenty six.