Labor Day Benefits
Okay, so maybe timing is everything…even when it comes to dental insurance benefits.
And I guess when I’m alert enough to connect the calendar with the content it’s way better than being a day late or a buck short…whatever that means. So I’m actually writing this piece on Labor Day but I wouldn’t exactly call the process work.
Hopefully, I’ll recover in time from the long weekend, USC sanctions football, and all the dreaded home improvement-type stuff I’ve put off for the last three months. I anticipate 6AM manana morning arriving like something faster than a speeding bullet.
Yeah, I got the weekend off to a totally laborious start by following five guys with umbrellas stumbling around Santa Anita Golf Course for about six hours. The night before, I’d put in a four-hour swing shift fighting clinical insomnia watching the Trojans give peace a chance on peaceful Oahu. And if Heisman knucklehead Johnny “Football” Manziel was twenty years older and had no talent would he be the next USC Coach Lane Kiffin? So when the Trojans are televised, it’s an excellent time to catch up on your dental benefits reading.
And you might ask, “What’s so laborious about golf?” Guess you haven’t watched it much (that’s reeeally laborious.) Plus, unlike my aging athletes-in-their-own-mind golfing buddies, I actually lug my own stinkin clubs. And standing around for 6 hours can make the prospect of the September spring cleaning project at the ole JVB hacienda seem like a comparative trip to the Magic Kingdom. Again, when you’re stuck behind slow crummy golfers, there’s plenty of quality time to break out those dental benefits.
So somewhere during a laborious weekend of golf, cleaning, watching football, and cooling down with an occasional frosty beverage, I also had to craft the Temple City Dental Care online newsletter aka the TCDC “ezine.” And the September issue always has a theme. (“Ezine” rather than newsletter if you’re a social media nerd in search of a social life even though you have about 1,200 “friends,” eleven-fifty or so of which wouldn’t know ya even if you stopped them on the street and asked them to open wide and say “Ah”.)
Here’s where the real dental stuff comes in. My Dad was a Teamster business rep (not a dentist); he negotiated contracts with management and did his best to create benefits for working folks, people who actually know the meaning of the word, labor. And dental insurance is a benefit; it helps pay the bills you have when you’re being responsible and accountable for your family’s health and quality of life. So even if you’re not in my “Ezine” inner circle, you’re still gonna get the message.
The Labor Day message is: please think about your 2013 dental benefits and use them rather them lose them as we approach 2014 (Ugh, how many days until Christmas?)
With every passing Labor Day, research is showing a stronger link between oral and general health. The beauty of achieving good oral health is that dentistry is basically a preventive approach. And most dental insurance plans are leveraged heavily toward prevention. So why not take advantage of the insurance program you’re buying on a monthly basis instead of just handing over all the cash to a tall building wearing a mask and carrying a bag of unused benefits?
Anyway, hope you guys had a great Labor Day weekend. And may you never play golf in sunny SoCal September behind five health conscious long-sleeved fellows carrying umbrellas, standing under trees, wearing baseball caps…and smoking cigarettes every slooow step of the way.
Just think…you coulda been catching up on your dental insurance benefits.