Mildly Interesting

Tell me you're American without telling me you're American.

It must be exhausting to be an american

I jump straight to filing a complaint with the Department of Insurance. The insurance company immediately gives me the authorization every time.

Can they respond to the DOI that I haven't followed proper escalation procedures? Sure. But they just fold because they know they're in the wrong and I am clearly willing to escalate matters.

Semi related, recently I was referred to what I thought was a “specialist” from my doctor for a thing but I couldn’t myself determine if they were in-network with my insurance. Turns out what was implied to be a specialist was actually just a company that determines where to send people for this specific service, so we’re at the point that a primary care provider is working with a 4th party to deal with the 1st party and the 5th party is running services at the 2nd party and I am 1) the person responsible to figure out this insanity and 2) will likely be billed an obscene amount of money for something that should’ve been a 1:1 convo with a doctor and a hospital because one or five of the likely 30 people across 8 companies missed an email. (And you know all those people are they themselves dealing with the same nightmare and probably being paid a paltry $15/hr.

Good luck getting them to give you an answer at all to any of those questions. You're going to need to get a lawyer and spend a lot of money and time getting any response at all from anyone who actually works for the company, since the customer service doesn't have access to any of that information and they wouldn't be allowed to reveal it even of they did. It's an insurance system, not a social service system where you have some kind of rights.

Insurance companies are designed to find any reason possible not to pay a claim, whether it's homeowner's insurance, liability insurance, or any other type of insurance. And they have plenty of lawyers on staff so they're happy to make the lawsuit take long enough to cost you more than the claim is worth to you and it barely costs them anything.

cause of death: not knowing the cheat code to getting treated like a human being that exists for some reason

I don't think persuasion Checks are a good way to determine who lives and who dies in real life 🥲

This is what I want to see.

Beat them back at their own game.

It is like when police say they wish that policing was like in The Andy Griffith Show. Tell them that everyone knew where sheriff Andy Taylor lived. Why don't you tell everyone where you live, sheriff ?

This is more than mildlyinteresting.

It's wild that Americans accept this idiotic healthcare system.

I guess I get hung up on the whole:

Everyone knows this is true; it's not a secret in any way. But it's a violation of a number of regulations

bit.

So it seems like we could very easily stop these corporations from literally killing people with already existing regulations we are just choosing not to. COOL.