AC Insurance

Posted on September 2, 2002 in Weather

The insurance company called. “The air conditioning people reported to us and they said that there was nothing wrong with your air conditioner.”

Excuse me? That’s not what they said. They said they’d done the isolation test and found that none of the areas that they had isolated had lost pressure. Therefore, they concluded that the freon leak must be in the cooling coil.

I suspect this scenario: air conditioning people sent the insurance people the numbers. The insurance people compared and saw that there was no change. So they concluded (to their own benefit) that there was “nothing wrong”.

I don’t know who to be angrier with: the insurance people for being persistantly and deliberately dumb or the air conditioning people for not writing a fuller report.

The insurance company is going to ask the air conditioning people for “more details”. I suspect that if I fight for it, I will get my air conditioner fixed in time for next summer. In the meantime, I expect that the insurance company will throw up any number of hoops for me to jump through.

Do we really want private health insurance when they fuss like this over a freaking air conditioner?

Maybe if I show up in the ER with heat exhaustion I can get Blue Cross to pay for it.