For medications I take regularly, United Healthcare will only cover medications for a limited time before you have to start getting them from their mail order pharmacy, OptumRx. Wouldn’t be a big deal if Optum could get their shit together long enough to get my meds to me without gaps in my supply.
I’ve had repeated calls with them and even discussions with my HR at work - which it’s fucking ridiculous that I should have to discuss any part of my healthcare with my non-medical-field employer, but that’s a whole rant on its own… I just get fed some bullshit about how using a mandatory Rx provider saves money. Told HR I know our company had ~$20 billion in revenue last year so we aren’t hurting, and I didn’t give two shits about saving money for an insurance company, so they’d need to find a different justification. Basically the only option I had to go with if I wanted to use my own pharmacist (that I can literally see across the street from my bedroom window) and didn’t want gaps in my prescription supplies was to pay out of pocket for my meds, so I guess that’s what I’m stuck with for now.
Thanks for coming to my TED talk. Just needed to vent somewhere.
PS - anyone hiring for Network Operations Techs?
I’m in the United States. Way back in the day, I worked as a bill collector. A customer made a similar comment to me while my supervisor was recording the call, just coincidentally for quality. They reported him to the police and I was later asked to testify at his trial. He was sentenced to six months in jail for making terroristic threats.
For context, this was shortly after 9/11 so people were on high alert. I doubt anyone at Lemmy is going to report you, we’re just concerned that sort of behavior is going to cause an amount of trouble that later cost/benefit analyses would lead you to regret.
Certainly understandable, and I’ve edited the main post to acknowledge the shitty nature of that part of my comments. I think I was just less receptive to @dhork@lemmy.world because of their condescending way of putting it.