For our health insurance at work we are being given the opportunity to save several hundred dollars by taking a health assessment survey along with making a follow up call to speak with an advisor. Why? I don’t know. Seems to me it’d be better if they just brought someone in and spoke with individuals face to face.

So far all I’ve heard is horror stories from people who’ve called in. People are being called morbidly obese when they are 3 lbs. over the listed healthy weight. Another person was called obese who actually had to put ON weight by their doctor and is an avid runner. I’m not hearing anything positive coming out it.

But for a few hundred dollars in saving I thought it might be worth enduring. If you know me, you know I don’t put up with much… if anything at all. So if anyone is going to be told it was going to be them if they tried to pull any punches!

I really can’t see anything positive coming out of the call but I sat down to make the call regardless. Luckily for me I was informed the advisors were in training so they couldn’t take my call. This means I’ll just have to take lunch tomorrow to do it… if I do it at all. I’m not sure how much I care about it now. I’m still on the fence about it so I may just skip it.

I think it’s stupid we’re asked to do it in the first place. Why does making this call save me money? Saving money is awesome and all but it’s just a call… It’s not a commitment to change anything. If anything I’ll just be talking about how horrible I am and how I have no plans to change anything at all, especially not for someone I don’t know on the other end of a phone call. Take this as an opportunity to better myself? Pfffbt! Whatever.