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@mawr I don't know. It's worth asking when next they contact me.

If you're in pain, I hear you.
If you're hurting, I see you.
If you're suffering, I believe you.
This world is cruel beyond measure, doubly so because it doesn't have to be, but because small minds and closed hearts have made it so to protect themselves at the expense of everyone else.
Please, don't give in to Moloch. I know how hard the fight is. I struggle daily, and often I fail. But still I fight, because I believe in the world beyond Its reach. I see you fighting, too. I'm proud of you.

Never assume your employer will have your back.
Never assume your employer will see you as a person.
Never assume your employer will reciprocate the time, the effort, or the mindpower you give them.
Never assume your employer will see you as anything other than a potentially fungible resource that will have to be replaced one day.
Build your care networks away from capitalism and its evils.
Find what comfort and solace you can in those who will see you as a person, not as food for Moloch.

He told me that he felt that every action the company took was to support as many employees as they could. I asked him how I was supposed to feel about the company if the actions they took to cover as many as possible left me in the cold and their answer to being confronted with that fact was "oops, sorry." He said he hoped I didn't feel like the company didn't care about me because of this. I said, "that's exactly how I feel, increasingly every time I talk about it."

THIS is why we need unions.
THIS is why we need collective action.
THIS is why we need solidarity.
THIS.
The benefits rep on the phone said flat-out he's having to tell a patient with breast cancer that she's exceeded her limits, and he "felt terrible" for having to do it. I about screamed on the bus, "your feelings won't pay for her cancer treatment."

To be sure, at one point he did fully admit that our corporate benefits package sucks and he hates having his hands tied, and it was good to hear that acknowledgement, but learned helplessness doesn't move the needle. He did say by the end that he would ask about how long my spouse would have to be without treatment before they could apply for TNS as a "new depressive episode," and that might work. And he did say he'd tell me how to manage an external review. But none of that _fixes_ this.

Benefits rep for the parent company called me this morning to say "we're doing everything we can."

I asked if they were contracting a second insurance provider so we'd at least have a market from which to choose, or if they were lobbying for single-payer at the corporate level.

He said no.

I said, "then you're not doing everything you can. I expect better."

The conversation didn't really go anywhere after that, but it took him forty-five minutes to recognize that.

@mawr Ploshes. =n.n=

@mawr https://awoo.space/media/TM--e9T7VlFMtSZJzHg

@zx3 Let there be--

let there _always_ be --

never-ending light.

@craigmaloney There's also "I think the computer told me fuck off, but I'm either too ignorant or too stubborn to do that."

@mawr Coffee shop.

@Cocoron@anticapitalist.party Structurally, its more akin to a custard pie than a cake. It's only because the dairy is solid -- cheese, maybe sour cream -- rather than liquid that the word "cake" gets used. Sub milk in the recipe, you get a classic custard pie. Also, you have to blind-bake the crust so it doesn't go soggy. That's a pie prep step; cakes don't have a separate crust.

So yes, cheesecake is a pie.

@ElectricKeet @adeptomega That thing is incredibly prettiful and I like it. I want one in complementing colors.

Oh, and I did ask Maria if she passed on the message to her SO like I asked her to. She raised her voice at me and said, "I don't think that's appropriate for this call." I responded with, "I think it's absolutely appropriate that the emotional cost of your business' decisions be held foremost in everyone's minds when you choose to between any patient and their doctor and refuse to cover requested care, regardless of reason."

Nobody talked for a few seconds after that.

@CoronaCoreanici bitey doggo whomst fluffy.

So I have another call tomorrow with just the Anthem rep, who I think at this point I've actively antagonized enough because she _is_ trying to help me, in whatever fashion she can. I'll be _damned_, however, if I give up making this as emotionally charged as I think she can handle. This shit is unacceptable.

Perhaps three doctors all saying "you're wrong" will get them to change their minds. I'm not counting on it, but I'm running out of options.