The Health Check

So my health insurer has decided I must be enrolled in some kind of health check thingy.

This involves having a nurse call me up occasionally and ask me all sorts of intrusive questions. Like what vitamins I take, the medications I'm on, how much I weigh, what I eat for breakfast, how much I exercise, etc. etc.

Then I get a lecture on life changes, complete with recipes for "smoothies" and an admonition to take this or that or the other thing. Non-prescription things, but still things.

I consider this to be about the most intrusive and horrific experience I've been subjected to in a while. I'm not sure what this is for but I strongly suspect that at some future date if I don't meet their "goals," whatever they are, I will find myself paying higher premiums. As if $7,000 a year just to insure me isn't enough.

It really isn't any of their business, is it. They get my money. They get to make all of the rules. I don't find this fair in the least.

I do just about everything right. I don't drink, smoke or take drugs. I exercise. The nurse even said during my first "health check: today that, "It doesn't sound like you have room for many changes."

My biggest "sins" are eating a little chocolate sometimes and drinking a soft drink every day. One soft drink.

Unfortunately I am cursed with a body that is allergic to everything, and that has contributed to asthma and some other respiratory issues.

I don't consider my allergies my fault, particularly when they have been with me since birth. I mean, I was allergic to the milk formulas they used back then and ended up on goats milk, for heaven's sake. This has been an issue since before I could do anything more than burp and poop.

And I resent like hell having to answer to some corporation for the fact that sometimes I can't breathe.