I've decided that the patron saint of insurance companies is Satan. A thread.
Doctor: I'd like you to up that dose from 4 pills to 6 pills. I'll have the pharmacy update the dosage.
Me: Yes sir. ~Immediately starts taking 6x/day of what I have left~
~Days later, pill bottle... almost empty~
Me: Pharmacy, can you please refill my medication?
~Day passes~
Pharmacy: Insurance declined it because you last filled it on 6/4 so you can't again until 7/4.
@AI78 They've done this to me with insulin. More than once.
@AskTheDevil sooooo... that's not like an "optional" one.
I do have a condition where, if untreated over time it will increase my chances of getting certain types of cancers (yay!) so I do NOT mess with that. Even if I could probably go a few days without. But nothing where like "yeah, missing a dose and not being on top of my blood sugar and it's ER time".
@AI78 For the most part, with my sort of diabetes, it's not _as_ likely that I'll end up in the ER... just have days, weeks, or months taken off my functional lifetime as it erodes my heart, my brain, my kidneys, my eyes.
Type 1 diabetics, or people worse off than me, can totally die from missing a day or two. I could, too, it's just less likely.
Regardless, we shouldn't be going on and off meds because it's convenient for some fucking insurance company.
@AskTheDevil Yeah, I have a family friend that was diagnosed with type 1 when she was in middle school. Rough disease.
Agreed, I'm sure by not paying that claim for another 48 hours they'll have saved significant dollars towards their bottom line. /s
@AI78 If you die, they don't have to pay anything. And if they do the same thing to a million people (and that's being really conservative), that's a million times whatever piddly little bit of interest or whatever they made from holding out on you a couple days.
When an outfit is allowed to grow huge and bloated, they can make a million dollars by screwing a million people a teeny bit, or doing their job just a teeny bit worse.
And of course, they do 100 teeny things.