Mabel Mobry, a hippie centenarian from San Francisco, wondered if
she had the freedom to get a prescription for medical marijuana under
her 2010 Medicare Advantage PPO plan, so she phoned her trusted California Health Insurance agent to find out.
Mabel Mobry, still spry after surviving for exactly a century, pined
for the days when she could get high with reckless abandon before all
those Draconian blue laws gummed things up. When she was younger, she’d
gone to Woodstock and heard Jimmy Hendrix play the national anthem. She
relished her infamous pot parties, toking up and going straight to the
bong, and getting a buzz. She’d married a man named Buzz, her third
husband, as a way to immortalize those halcyon days, but he’d died in
the bicentennial year, 1976, and that was a while ago. But now, in
2009, the pendulum was swinging back. Downtown and in the suburbs,
marijuana was alive again, quasi-legal, if you used it for medical
purposes. Stores sold it openly, if you had a prescription from a
doctor. But Mabel was quite healthy for a centenarian. “I don’t feel a
day over 94,” Mabel said to her cat, Woodstock, a white Angora that
liked to party. What could she do to get her bong out again, a
relatively law abiding old lady’s simple pleasure?
Suddenly she had a brilliant idea, concerning her 2010 Medicare
Advantage plan, the documents comprising it just sitting on the blue
kitchen table getting dusty. Rock music started pounding in her head,
Led Zeppelin playing some sort of anthem. She felt the freedom to act
like Buzz’s warm caressing fingers remembered. He was her favorite
husband when it came to physicality. Ring, once was all it took as her
trusted California Health Insurance agent, a devout liberal thank God, picked up.
“Mrs. Mobry,” he said, sounding like a cherub although he had to be
at least sixty, “What can I do you for?” A free spirit, the guy liked
the freedom to juxtapose. He was humming the Star Spangled Banner, our
national anthem.
She came straight to the point. Woodstock was listening and nodded
his approval. “Can my 2010 Medicare Advantage plan incorporate a
prescription for medical marijuana? Would such treatments be covered?”
“Do you have any medical conditions that might apply?” asked the cherubic California Health Insurance agent.
Mabel thought about it, but didn’t want to lie. “I might be going
blue blind,” she said, shading the truth just a mite, as she could
still see well enough to watch the Freedom Bowl parade on television,
with its colorful anthem playing.
“That might do,” said the cherubic agent, “That just might do you.”
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