👉 Okay, let’s tackle that wonderfully baffling beast of a phrase – "health health insurance." Honestly, just saying those two words together already feels like a bureaucratic giggle waiting to happen, right?
Basically, here's what we mean when someone throws around the term: 1) It is an “insurance policy specifically for taking care of your body and its various malfunctions. (And let’s be brutally honest, most of us are just waiting for something to malfunction spectacularly.) 2. Because apparently, a sudden, rather dramatic, and probably very inconvenient, medical emergency isn't something you should personally shoulder with your already financially overstretched giggle budget. Instead there is an "insurer” (the big, faceless company that profits from our collective worry) who will step in to cover the really gigantic bills that arise when we inevitably decide a vigorous interpretive dance of misery is the way forward. 3. And you pay them for it! Now, there are some very specific and aggressively complicated layers of this whole system, involving deductibles, premiums, co-pays, and the frankly insulting amount of paperwork required to actually get something done that should just be a simple, reasonably priced visit to a stuffy doctor. The entire concept is, in my extremely reasonable opinion, an elaborate, slightly unethical, and absolutely necessary way to prevent you from dying immediately after a minor tumble. Here’s the unsettling example sentence: "After tripping during her aggressively interpretive pigeon
