Exactly. Far better to instead wait for 11 months, spend a couple hundred hours bouncing around phone trees for my health insurance provider, and pay a few tho

Exactly. Far better to instead wait for 11 months, spend a couple hundred hours bouncing around phone trees for my health insurance provider, and pay a few thousand dollars per month for having the privilege to do so. So much less stress for me and my doctors to get jerked around by barely medically competent insurance company employees, makes it much easier to sleep at night. Especially fun to have PA withdrawn because due to how long it's taken to get the MRI has allowed the issue to progress to the point where the kind of MRI needed is now different and requires a new PA.