Well, FFS, it’s not like insurance companies are our friends. I’m surprised there isn’t separate insurance for virtually every part of our bodies. “Stubbed your toe? Sorry, you don’t have toe insurance.”

Im pretty sure money is the only reason they’re separate. I do find it interesting how the terms “vision” and “eye health” seem to be mutually exclusive according to the insurance companies.

Also the concept of “they can still get free birth control if they just go buy a separate insurance for it” is absurd... because then they’d presumably have to pay for that insurance, which would mean the birth control isn’t free.

Vision problems don’t end with an eye exam and glasses. Prescriptions change, frames break, and lenses scratch. They’re expensive as hell, and it’s a life long problem. I have had vision plans in the past and it certainly allowed me to be more frequent in my prescription updates (which lowers the frequency of my…

I think, like a lot of the dental insurance plans out there, the idea is that you make the actual cost seem (or be, if they’ve got an employer paying premiums) lower so that they use the services much more. Like, if you have no vision coverage, you are probably stretching it as long as you can between eye exams and…

Not to mention also being civil servants. They probably think most employers pay 100% of the insurance premium.

Oh BC, that explains it. I’m in Ontario. I don’t really understand what the situation in BC is but I know my friend moved there briefly and was hassled for years about unpaid medical bills?!?!? He was like, “I’m a Canadian. I’m not paying that!”

Exactly, I don't understand how vision insurance is a thing. At least dental is betting against proper dental hygiene.

I KNOW. IT MAKES ME NUTS.

I imagine there’s a LOT of things that people with that kind of money don’t understand.

I’m not confusing them, I’m drawing a deliberate distinction.

Considering that money paid in support does not fully cover the costs of raising children, the custodial parent is highly unlikely to have spent it on something other than the children.

Yeah, I worked for the Child Support Enforcement Division for a while, and the attorneys would always explain to the NCP that the little over $100 they were being ordered to pay (usually around the minimum figuring minimum wage) works out to about $4.00 per day for their child to survive on. Usually that helped them…

I don’t think they get paid on clicks.

Author is the best troll ever. He knew Jezebel readers wouldn’t be able to resist reading this to all collectively agree he is a jerk. Yet look at those clicks pouring in. Dude is getting paid now....

Sounds like my ex. He is much, much wealthier than I am, yet there was a time that I had to go after him every month for support. Finally took it to court and now he pays. Then again, he also tries to deduct any money he spends on the kids because apparently the small amount of support is supposed to cover everything.…

Oh yes indeed. My ex tried to get me to itemise every single thing I was using his piddling amount of support on. I told him to fuck off and come back with a court order. Never heard another word about it.

Don’t forget “between my daughter’s mother and I.”

Yeah, I didn’t want to say it because I don’t like to be mean. But he’s... not a very good writer.

You’re a professional writer and you think the phrase is, “on the lamb?”