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Women's Rights & Issues

ShazzieB

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7. They're probably just doing what their employers require them to do, in order to keep their jobs. 😕

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Reply #4)

Sat Feb 12, 2022, 07:22 PM

Feb 2022

Try to remember that the people you're talking to are insurance company employees. They don't make the rules, and knowing how corporations work, they're probably under a lot of pressure to keep costs down, push cheaper options, etc. It sucks, and it shouldn't be that way, but that's one of the things that happen when health care is a business run by corporations whose chief motivation is to maximize profits.

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They're probably just doing what their employers require them to do, in order to keep their jobs. 😕 ShazzieB Feb 2022 #7

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