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Date: 25 February 2004 09:52:24
Whoever tried to raise people's hopes with such idealistic crap should be in big trouble.
Today my major task was to get the scripts ready to send to the Health Insurance Commission (HIC). This involves making sure that they're a) all present b) correctly stickered c) signed d) dated by the person who signed them e) stamped where necessary (eg. if one of the items on the script wasn't required it needs to be stamped with DEFERRED and if the person needs a drug early it needs the EMERGENCY SUPPLY stamp with a signature) f) have the patient's full name and address, concession number and medicare number... and some other letters of the alphabet that I can't be bothered to write about.
So this is stupid why? Well I spend all day putting all this information on the scripts (a normal claim can be thousands of scripts) so that they aren't rejected by the HIC - signing, dating, stamping, stickering (and oh sod I've just verbified sticker!). And the HIC KNOWS that I'm doing this. And when we send our claim to them we send a DISK with everything on it - all the numbers and letters and dates and everything. There must be a better way!
I'd like to propose microchipping at birth. Everyone. And the microchips can be used for everything - health care, train tickets, coke machines...