Fireworks are going off and I'm home trying to catch up on my dad's paperwork and am horrified as I just realized I've missed open enrollment for health insurance. I paid the insurance company, and the check was cashed, but I didn't re-enroll him. My dad decided he wanted to get mail at his house, so SOME of the mail goes to his house, and the rest comes to my house. I can't do this anymore. It's New Years, I've canceled our trip to FL tomorrow to catch up, now I realize I've made a colossal failure of a mistake, I feel like every time I turn around there's something coming at me from another angle. I'm mad at myself, mad at him for insisting on getting his mail, mad at my family for not helping, oh this is awful. He'll be 85 in 2 weeks, is scheduled for a biopsy next week, and I've screwed this up. Does anyone know if there's a grace period in MI for senior citizens?
Open enrollment is, I believe, for people who did not yet have health insurance, or who wanted to change it.
From what I understand, if you do not choose, a choice will be made for you?
Since you already paid, that IS your Dad's insurance.
Use the same cards. Call Health Care Options to confirm.
At least, that is how my logic works. They cashed the check.
OK, if someone is on Medicaid, low income, requiring "Extra help", they were in the past, exempt from open enrollment. But getting them "whomever is on the other end of the phone" to acknowledge exemption from the time period given for open enrollment is near impossible.
Call the Center for Health Care Rights if you get any grief!!
Remember my favorite motto:
"What can be done by paperwork, can be undone by more paperwork."
If you don't get a new copy of the health insurance card, ask for one.
WHO did you send the check to? Call them.
A doctor's office can confirm insurance coverage in minutes at your visit. Ask for a copy.
Go to the fridge, take a drink of something cool. Happy New Year!
Let's toast to happier days ahead in 2018!
Now, put your jammies on, and go to bed! I just know you haven't slept at all this year!
Now, have a glass of wine 🍷(it's 5 pm somewhere) and give yourself credit for keeping everything together.
I know I feel like I have bees in my blood due to having to remember everything for my mom and husband.
😜 🐝🐝🐝🐝
Will we ever feel "calm" again?
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