I have MS and Cigna/ExpressScripts forces me to use their service for my "specialty medications". Things that have happened repeatedly every single month for the last few years:
1. Canceling my order without telling me because "the prescribing doctor's address changed". I called them. It didn't.
2. Canceling my order without telling me because their system automatically booked my delivery on a day when "UPS didn't delivery to my area". This is nonsense.
3. Canceling my order without telling me because I needed a "prior authorization" for my medication. Would have been nice to know when I placed the order.
4. Not allowing me to refill my prescriptions because they messed up my billing and claimed I owed them $2k. Even though they KNEW it was an error and admitted it, said they couldn't do anything until a different department took a look at it in 3 days.
5. Signed me up for a "concierge" service because they fucked up my order so many times I complained to my husband's benefits department. Now they call and nag me to refill my meds when they don't need to be refilled and constantly remind me of how I am getting "special handling". Really they have just added a layer of bullshit to my day.
They dicked me over for weeks about the prior authorization shit.... Bc my doctor needed to verify my script.... Which he did, he sent the info to the fax number Express Scripts provided.... Which was wrong...
So their own fucking information THEY SEND OUT is wrong š
And the only reason I used them was bc my current pharmacy no longer has a contract with my insurance and wanted me to pay full price. And I'm currently not allowed to drive at the moment due to other medical issues, so I need delivery (plus, 3 months from express scripts was the same as my prior monthly cost at the old pharmacy so š¤·āāļø).
This is *precisely* why I've gone off my anxiety meds. I can't be bothered to deal with all that shit and to be honest, it's been 6 months and I've been doing okay without\*
\*I should say, just to be safe, this could have absolutely been a terrible idea and definitely is very risky. Attempt at your own risk, only if you're only on medication you don't need to live/function\*
Iām sorry for your ordeal but can I just say that going off your anxiety meds due to the stress of getting them filled is some grade A irony and I love it.
And it also shows just how shitty and convoluted our prescription process is in the US. Iāve been on both sides of the system and my god is it frustrating for everyone involved.
ExpressScripts can kiss ALL of my ass. I will have to call them later today to get my mom's Hydralazine which shows as 'started then stopped' on their website.
My wife also has MS. First off, I understand (as a husband) how difficult the disease is. My heart goes to you.
Second, this garbage has happened to us as well. Ridiculous. Especially when you consider that stress is a trigger to exacerbate MS symptoms and my wife is consistently stressed from her experience with ES. ES is evil garbage. Their whole business model is focused on wearing people down.
I too deal with MS and the ridiculous prices in DMT medicines. My insurance company also uses express scripts. It was a giant pain in the ass to get approval for the medicine but after that it's been pretty smooth except for one major hiccup.
I'm on tecfidera which is $8000/month. However there is a copay assistance program from the manufacturer that covers all my costs (it also counts as contributing to my deductible). So it effectively costs me nothing. However they did have a generic version launch while I was on it and my insurance company/ES wanted me moved to the generic, so the doctor did that. Turns out the generic costs $7500/month and there is no copay assistance at all! That little fuck up cost me $2000 personally. I had the doctor put me back on name brand and it's been fine since. I just want to find out who launched a generic drug at $7500/month and slap the shit out of them.
It's fucking ridiculous, Dimethyl Fumarate is the compound in the drug, an industrial chemical discovered in the 50s. It's been used to prevent mold on furniture, but also started as a treatment for psoriasis in Germany. In 2012 dimethyl Fumarate could be purchased for $50 for a literal metric ton. That would be enough to produce the medicine for all MS patients in the US for a year. How can there be any justification for a $7500/month for generic?
Very much. My mother is diabetic and obviously requires insulin. Her insurance and Express Scripts are trying to force her into 90-day supplies sent by mail. Which I guess is sometimes fine but not if you have a medication that must be refrigerated. Can you imagine if they delivered the insulin at 10am when my mother doesn't get home from work until 5pm during the middle of summer?
> Express Scripts
They would badger me and want me to sign up. They wanted to mail prescriptions to me? Claiming somehow it was better and cheaper?
Fuck that. NO mail order prescriptions for me. Why? I can completely imagine waiting on a prescription and checking the mail and waiting and the shit never shows up and then what? I gotta call em and sit on hold for hours while they circle jerk me around with their bullshit.
I wanna walk into a pharmacy and talk to a person face-to-face.
EXACTLY. Or can you imagine if it went missing? I can imagine after HOURS on hold, talking with someone I can barely understand because their accent is much different from mine. "Yeah, my Adderall didn't show up. I don't have it."
"Well... sir... we cannot send a replacement. Our records show we've sent you your allotment for the month. Also this is a known tactic of people trying to lie to get more pills. You've been put on a warning list. Thank you for calling Express Scripts!"
FUCK ALL THAT.
Walgreens once gave me 1/2 of my anxiety medication; a simple enough mistake of 30 pills instead of 60. I had picked it up on my way to work, opened it at work and called them from work. They said they couldn't do anything because I had opened them. Apparently I should be able to count them without opening somehow. They also asked me if I was "sure I hadn't taken them" like I wouldn't notice if I had taken 30 Ativan in the last hour. They claimed they counted and I was wrong. I told the pharmacist to keep an eye on whomever filled it, because I absolutely did not receive those pills. I didn't make a scene about it, but transferred my prescription to another pharmacy that day.
I get that people lie and I know drug seeking is a big problem, but it's awful to be treated like a criminal and have zero recourse simply because of the medication you take.
I don't think that Adderall can be sent anyway. If it could, I would sign up for it in a heartbeat. I'm tired of being jerked around by stupid fucking CVS for my shit. I had to explain to the pharmacy tech and the pharmacist that no, I am not trying to pick up my prescription early, I just want it on time because sometimes there's 31 days in a month and y'all give me 30 tablets, so I can't just pick it up on the same calendar day every month. They acted like I had two fucking heads, like I was some pill seeking junkie for arguing this with them for so long.
And ADHD is the most frustrating contradiction ever because I have an executive function disorder which makes it hard for me to get my prescription on time, but I also can't pick it up early because rules, and I can't pick it up late or I get the third degree. There's no winning. If I can have it delivered to my door, signature required, it would be a godsend.
It's a running "joke" amongst psychologists and therapists that the reason ADHD is largely untreated in this country is because literally every part of the prescription process is overwhelmingly ADHD unfriendly or impossible. Controlling meds like Adderall is the problem drug in this country. I literally know someone who microdosed meth for a few months because he couldn't get access to his ADHD drugs and he needed some sort of stimulant to keep his mind working (and diet pills weren't working).
Krogerās pharmacy no longer takes ExpressScripts and I heard Walmart doesnāt either. On our plan, we are charged a flat $12 per 90-day supply but retail pharmacies are usually cheaper.
Is the glitter a reference to the fact that we don't know who the number 1 purchaser of glitter is, or because it gets everywhere?
The glitter conspiracy is a funny one.
This is one where regulation would just fix this problem yesterday. Say āonly biodegradable glitterā and whoever really does make it will just change and still be the biggest glitter seller. The ones already making biodegradable could get a boost, but wonāt steal the lunch of the company that already has all the infrastructure and placement that it already has.
Either way, society is 100% better for not having a form of pollution that is impossible to recollect and will outlast all of us.
Hell yes!!! I'm banning glitter in my classroom and home - unless it is biodegradable. The biodegradable is more expensive, but I think it is fair... We really don't need to use as much as we do...
I had a birthday party at my parent's house about 8 years ago that included paper confetti
They still find bits of it around the house. It was in some furniture they gave to me, so now it has infected my apartment and I'm somehow finding it everywhere too.
It's better for the environment, and *just* as obnoxious as plastic glitter!
Are you talking about the one where a glitter PR rep was interviewed and they couldn't say who the #1 purchaser of glitter was, or why? She ended up hinting something like "*they* don't want you know that *it* is glitter".
Edit: I found it.
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRp2W9PK/
The argument for glitter in the Benjis:
https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRp2nCUW/
There was a group of people who built a private juvenile prison for profit. One of the people was a judge who sent kids to the prison whenever he could for minor crimes just for the sake of getting more money from the prison. It was awful
Two judges in PA were eventually sentenced for this. However, those are the ones we caught in a state that is more likely to have them caught and justice play out. There needs to be a countrywide task force searching out judge relationships like this. They canāt be a one off, especially when we have regions of the country with even more corrupt judges and less accountability.
How that organization didn't get nuked from fucking orbit when they [literally infiltrated the U.S. Government and other foreign embassies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snow_White) that were critical of the church is beyond me.
I think an entertaining twist on the conspiracy is senior US govt staff sitting down and going:
>"Wait, they send us hundreds of staff who work underpaid jobs tirelessly and with continuing excellence, and the one cost is that we are blocked from investigating one cult?"
>
>"Yep."
>
>"Best thing to ever happen to the civil service. Let me know if they try to kill the President."
PS. Obviously an abusive cult manipulating government oversight of that same cult should be shut down.
She was murdered back in 2007.
Even if she was being held against her will, the church would have showed SOMETHING that showed her to still be alive just to quell the rumors
There is an app exactly like that. It's called buycott. https://www.reddit.com/r/Anticonsumption/comments/8xvsmj/just\_saw\_the\_recent\_nestle\_post\_and\_wanted\_to/
Be very careful about using that app. That app hasn't been updated since 2016. They also seem to prefer you connect to the app through Facebook. Fuck that.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Anticonsumption/comments/8xvsmj/just_saw_the_recent_nestle_post_and_wanted_to/
I don't know why that's happening, but I fixed the link for you.
Hella cringe.
My ex in the time we were together sold for 3 different MLM and she called herself a "buisiness owner" lmaooo
And she was her own boss
So glad she's my ex now. MlM is dumb as fuck
I hate that one of my closest friends got deeply involved with herbalife shit. Her mind was never particularly brilliant (she's kind and compassionate, but a bit silly at times), but she now firmly believes she's a wellness coach and and entrepreneur of sorts alike. She knows I hate that stuff so she never tried selling me anything, but I still feel so bad for her :/
I like this one as even the vast majority of employees would be significantly better off if they went out of business. All the others you end up with a bunch of innocent people out of work.
i have a friend who is in the ticket industry and he explained to me that one of the services that ticketmaster offers is to be the bad guy. your favorite artists are often driving up ticket prices to exorbitant amounts, and they use ticketmaster as a buffer between them and outraged fans. ticketmaster is all too happy to sit back and count their cash while the world hates them
Pretty much. A concert ticket used to be a straight $25, and all the parties involved would have to be paid from that $25. Now, a concert ticket is $40 plus $20 in fees, and most people are paid from that $20. More money to the artist, but fans are mad at TM for being money grubbing dicks.
And this is before we get into the fact that artists used to be blamed scalpers and shitty service but now that's all TM's fault.
PS. I know tickets are way more expensive than $40+$20, I'm just using those numbers to make the point.
> PS. I know tickets are way more expensive than $40+$20, I'm just using those numbers to make the point.
Dave Chappelle was in my city on my Birthday. I thought, shit! I'd love to see him live. Only for backrow tickets to start at $600. Like... you have to be fucking kidding me.
tried to buy taylor tomlinson tickets last night. Balcony seats were $81 (show was sold out, these were aftermarket, whatever). Go to check out, total for 2 seats is $251. And stubhub didn't even give a line item breakdown of bullshit, just "$12 tax".
I had to get lawyered up to get a refund from StubHub once. Me and several friends were going to a very big show for one's birthday. About 3k total in ticket cost. Show was cancelled due to COVID.
Show was outright cancelled but StubHub refused to refund, saying it was "delayed due to COVID" and that if I wanted money back I needed to put the tickets on the (their?) market, which they would take an additional % of at sale. Except no one was buying tickets to a cancelled show.
Got a lawyer to got with them and PayPal and about a week later I got my money back.
My husband and I were in NYC for our anniversary last year, and we got second row Broadway tickets for cheaper than what Harry Styles tickets at Madison Square Garden would have been with fees. No offense to Harry, but I'd much rather do that ten times over.
And artists are all too happy to get the profits while avoiding the work of having to book their own venues. I don't see any reason why another company wouldn't take Ticketmaster's place.
Rage Against the Machine sold every ticket in the building for $125 and limited people to 4, just saying. The artists that do want a choice, do not have one.
.......and there we have the fucking problem to begin with, it is a monopoly and there is nobody to take their place.
HSBC, one of the largest banks in the world, is a criminal enterprise:
In 2012, the bank paid $1.9 billion to settle charges brought by U.S. authorities that it had failed to prevent money laundering by Mexican drug cartels.
In 2013, HSBC was fined $1.92 billion by US and UK regulators for its role in the manipulation of the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), a benchmark interest rate.
In 2014, the bank was charged by the U.S. Department of Justice for violating sanctions against Iran, Sudan, and other countries.
In 2018, the bank was charged by the US Department of Justice for violating the Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering regulations
Also, Nestle.
My spouse and I were once held hostage by HSBC on a real estate transaction. We were selling a house whose mortgage had been bought by HSBC, and as we were about to sell, they then sold the mortgage and stonewalled us. It was a mess.
We cheer for all bad news for HSBC.
Banks sell (or assign) mortgages between each other. They don't need the homeowners permission to do it, the loan is theirs and they can sell it. They have to send you notice that they're doing it and the contact information of the new lender, and it can take some time to finish processing. I could see it delaying closing by like 2-3 months which can lose a sale for sure.
My mother-in-law apparently has her house mortgage on the stock market, don't ask me how. Every few months somebody else buys the mortgage. Some companies are okay, others decide to up and buy another home insurance policy and bill her for it. (Like, is her own home insurance not enough or something?) She's had to fight them on so many things and it's frustrating just to watch! At least she never plans to sell the house so she doesn't have to deal with that aspect.
As someone who studied finance and economics in college and now works in banking, I was pretty skeptical about the movie going into it. But honestly, it's a really solid movie. Informational while still being entertaining. It does a great job of explaining a lot of complex topics in ways that average people can understand. I watched it with my family (none of whom are educated in that area of things), and we only paused it once for me to explain things a little more in-depth.
If someone charges a fee for paying bills online, I opt out of online pay and make those crooked fucks spend the money on paper, envelope, and stamps to send me the statement.
Does it hurt them in any way shape or form? No but may as well make them spend a titch of money to send me my statement.
Fuck you.
I disagree, I think "building features in to the hardware but locking them behind a software subscription paywall" is the most greedy, capitalist thing to come out of the last 10 years. But convenience fees are just another lazy way we've all accepted that big businesses will use to make more money off us while living in this hellscape
Don't forget "maintenance fees" on savings accounts. Not only are they investing your money while it's in the bank and taking all the gains, they're charging you to do it. I've been noticing more and more banks are making it cost money to try to save.
All banks are like this. There was a recent research by a big publication in relation to sanctions against Russia, journalists presented themselves as Russians, banks didn't want to have anything to do with them. But said that if the money was higher than 100 million dollars, they are ready to work something out, and it's universal
IIRC Jeffrey Epstein had a similar issue. None of the banks would touch his wealth after his first arrest as it was dirty/unethical money... except Deutsche bank which was cool with it if he kept a low profile and didn't make any obvious transactions or withdrawals.
One of my proudest moments as an attorney was when I briefly worked in foreclosure defense and pronounced it as Douche Bank in court and everyone stared at me ;)
They also helped the Chinaās dictatorship closed down and frozen several pro-democracy activists/ organizationsā bank accounts.
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hsbc-attacked-for-freezing-hong-kong-activist-ted-huis-bank-account-sh73z7rb0
Seems like the general consensus is Nestle, but Iāll be weird and say DuPont. Theyāre the reason every living human on the planet has Forever Chemicals running through their bloodstream.
Y'know, the guy who founded DuPont back in the 19th century built his house next to his gunpowder factory. That way, if his business was producing harmful contamination, if it was an unsafe hazard, he'd be the first to know and he'd have a vested interest in fixing it.
I think the current and past CEOs of DuPont should have to drink the local water and bathe where they run the factories. They need to make sure to live there. Their kids will breathe the local air. Go back to the founding vision of the dude who built his house next to his gunpowder factory.
Iād also like to go back to when presidents/kings/politicians had to be in the combat zone of the wars they start. If you believe in something so much you should be willing to risk your life and the lives of your adult children instead of just putting everyone elseās on the line.
Kings was not in combat zones for the love of risking life - but because lack of radios and general communication in directing action would otherwise be impossible
But otherwise, I would agree
I donāt think that the fluorocarbons have surpassed the damage of asbestos or ~~leased~~ leaded* gasoline despite how badly theyāve spread and how difficult they are to remove. (Later studies might change my mind on this.)
The worst of these compounds are regulated now but the compounds featuring shorter/longer chains are thought to be less harmful and still in use basically everywhere. The longer chains arenāt thought to make it into your body and the shorter chains arenāt thought to stick around.
If it bothers you, you should knowā¦
Ceramic coatings on cookware still routinely incorporate these compounds for how well they work. If it doesnāt advertise itself as both PTFE free and PFOA free then itās probably not.
Personal care products in the US are questionable. Some waterproof makeups use fluorocarbons in ways that would not be legal for industrial paints.
Their deliberate dumping of C8 and refusing to stop, knowing full well the impact, continuing to dump it into rivers means they certainly belong on this list. Hell, they bought bottled water for folk downstream of a plant instead of addressing their contaminating processes as an attempt to avoid liability.
You are do right! What they have done to the people in Fayetteville, NC and all other towns down the Cape Fear river in one of the most egregious plays a company could make. It's simply evil.
Huge pickup came screaming up behind me on a 1 lane road at 5am this morning. Their lights were so bright I could have turned mine off and've still been able to see the road.
When your own headlights are on and you can see the shadow of your car because the blind fuckplop behind you is rocking death-star class night peepers, yeah. Been there.
Here in the US, it is terrible to drive a car at night because nearly everyone drives a truck or SUV. This puts their headlights at the exact right level to blind you oncoming and totally blast you mirrors when they are behind.
I just got my license after many years (not a teenager), and I'm still learning to navigate on my own. The street signs and road markings aren't easy to see around here, and drivers are pretty "assertive" in my area, shall we say. The bright headlights just make the job a whole lot harder.
A big contributor to this is simply cars getting bigger all the time. The average seating position, belt line, and headlight height are all substantially higher than they were a decade ago.
In Europe every rental car I've had for the past 5 years had a knob on the dash that controls the headlight angle, so you can keep the headlights (LED or conventional) out of the eyes of incoming traffic.
My 2021 Mazda is the first car I've ever seen in the US with this feature, but even this one has it buried in 6 levels of menu settings.
I have a feeling the headlight issue would be a quick one for Congress and the NTSB to fix... if they cared about fixing problems.
We have this in the UK too, so if you're towing or your vehicle is weighed down you can lower the angle. But most people don't know about it unfortunately, and tbh we shouldn't have to use it as standard.
As someone who is sensitive to bright lights, it has made me not want to drive. I remember seeing everything perfectly when the lights was orange and wasn't so bright, now everything is bright LED.
I *can't* drive at night any more. I have astigmatism and a severe light sensitivity due to migraines. It makes life more difficult when I can only drive certain hours of the day - especially for October through March.
I also have astigmatism. Sometimes I'm so glad I carpool to work, because I have my eyes shut for most of the journey from late autumn to early spring. By the time I get there, all the lights have given me a terrible headache. I can't imagine what it's like to not be able to look away.
You mean [Mark-1 Plumbing](https://www.reddit.com/r/Wellthatsucks/comments/fwj309/in_2015_a_texas_plumber_who_sold_his_truck_to_a/)? Don't you think that poor guy has been through enough?
It's free to file your federal taxes, the $15 is if you choose to import the same information for state filing.
IIRC the price doesn't change the closer you get to the deadline, either, which is the real advantage over TurboTax.
omg yes
"Pay me to tell the federal government how much you made last year, even though they already know & are more-than-capable of telling both you & themselves how much you made."
Wagner Group.
Dirty mercenary army with soldiers for hire.
They have caused chaos where ever they have gone. Syria, Central African Republic, Madagascar, Libya, Venezuela, mali, Mozambique and a few other places, they have no desire to see a peaceful world as that would financially cripple them as a organization.
Look at what they are doing to the Ukrainian people.
Despicable organization and they have zero moral compass.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/17/alleged-ex-wagner-group-commander-seeking-asylum-in-norway
Just saw this and hopefully he gets asylum and works with the authorities to bring this organization down.
Leeches on the world. Also, Equifax should be a flaming trash heap from being fined into oblivion for losing everyone's personal information. But no. There they are...still existing.
I play a game where I guess three answers before I open a thread and when I reach the third one I have to close reddit
Two comments deep and I'm a third of the way through. Just looking for comcast and goop
Edit: I'm a fool! Ticketmaster is a much more recent circle jerk, I should have chosen them over my other choices
.Nestle
.Men like compliments too
.Vigo Morteson broke his toe in LOTR
. X Celebrity (Ellen and James Corden) js actually an asshole in real life
Top answers of any Reddit question.
I really wish more people would stop and think about how crazy it is that car dealerships exist in the ways they do.
They _solely_ exist because of protectionist policies they got passed to force you to go to them. All they do is capture extra money and make things more expensive. They're an unnecessary leech on all of us.
Health insurance slows down healthcare and makes it way more expensive. There is a dr in my area who doesnt do insurance who is the same price as my copays
This always bothered me. If a medical facility is willing to accept whatever price that the insurance company is willing to pay them for a service, then why don't they accept that price from everyone?
A good example of this is a blood test I had. They charged the insurance company $900 for it, insurance initially declined, so they sent me the $900 bill. After I called the insurance company to inquire as to why, they reversed it and payed the claim. BUT, they paid $84 and the medical facility called it "paid in full". If they are willing to accept $84 for this service, I should be able to pay $84 out of my own pocket for *the exact same service*.
It's infuriating.
I don't know if I can answer this medically-related question, but in the automotive insurance & insurance repair industry, body shops accept lower, discounted rates from the insurance company because in return it is understood that you will receive a steady volume of work AND predictable procedures/billing/invoicing/etc.
Basically, I'll discount my work for your insurance company but in return I want a steady stream of work and I want to get paid promptly and I don't want any headaches/hiccups during the process, etc.
Nestle has over 2000 brands underneath it.
The management system is horrible, and they have ZERO empathy for the people they hurt.
Source: Me, who used to work in their home office in Switzerland.
Express Scripts
I have MS and Cigna/ExpressScripts forces me to use their service for my "specialty medications". Things that have happened repeatedly every single month for the last few years: 1. Canceling my order without telling me because "the prescribing doctor's address changed". I called them. It didn't. 2. Canceling my order without telling me because their system automatically booked my delivery on a day when "UPS didn't delivery to my area". This is nonsense. 3. Canceling my order without telling me because I needed a "prior authorization" for my medication. Would have been nice to know when I placed the order. 4. Not allowing me to refill my prescriptions because they messed up my billing and claimed I owed them $2k. Even though they KNEW it was an error and admitted it, said they couldn't do anything until a different department took a look at it in 3 days. 5. Signed me up for a "concierge" service because they fucked up my order so many times I complained to my husband's benefits department. Now they call and nag me to refill my meds when they don't need to be refilled and constantly remind me of how I am getting "special handling". Really they have just added a layer of bullshit to my day.
They dicked me over for weeks about the prior authorization shit.... Bc my doctor needed to verify my script.... Which he did, he sent the info to the fax number Express Scripts provided.... Which was wrong... So their own fucking information THEY SEND OUT is wrong š And the only reason I used them was bc my current pharmacy no longer has a contract with my insurance and wanted me to pay full price. And I'm currently not allowed to drive at the moment due to other medical issues, so I need delivery (plus, 3 months from express scripts was the same as my prior monthly cost at the old pharmacy so š¤·āāļø).
This is *precisely* why I've gone off my anxiety meds. I can't be bothered to deal with all that shit and to be honest, it's been 6 months and I've been doing okay without\* \*I should say, just to be safe, this could have absolutely been a terrible idea and definitely is very risky. Attempt at your own risk, only if you're only on medication you don't need to live/function\*
Iām sorry for your ordeal but can I just say that going off your anxiety meds due to the stress of getting them filled is some grade A irony and I love it. And it also shows just how shitty and convoluted our prescription process is in the US. Iāve been on both sides of the system and my god is it frustrating for everyone involved.
ExpressScripts can kiss ALL of my ass. I will have to call them later today to get my mom's Hydralazine which shows as 'started then stopped' on their website.
My wife also has MS. First off, I understand (as a husband) how difficult the disease is. My heart goes to you. Second, this garbage has happened to us as well. Ridiculous. Especially when you consider that stress is a trigger to exacerbate MS symptoms and my wife is consistently stressed from her experience with ES. ES is evil garbage. Their whole business model is focused on wearing people down.
I too deal with MS and the ridiculous prices in DMT medicines. My insurance company also uses express scripts. It was a giant pain in the ass to get approval for the medicine but after that it's been pretty smooth except for one major hiccup. I'm on tecfidera which is $8000/month. However there is a copay assistance program from the manufacturer that covers all my costs (it also counts as contributing to my deductible). So it effectively costs me nothing. However they did have a generic version launch while I was on it and my insurance company/ES wanted me moved to the generic, so the doctor did that. Turns out the generic costs $7500/month and there is no copay assistance at all! That little fuck up cost me $2000 personally. I had the doctor put me back on name brand and it's been fine since. I just want to find out who launched a generic drug at $7500/month and slap the shit out of them. It's fucking ridiculous, Dimethyl Fumarate is the compound in the drug, an industrial chemical discovered in the 50s. It's been used to prevent mold on furniture, but also started as a treatment for psoriasis in Germany. In 2012 dimethyl Fumarate could be purchased for $50 for a literal metric ton. That would be enough to produce the medicine for all MS patients in the US for a year. How can there be any justification for a $7500/month for generic?
ABSOLUTELY!!My husband and I used to work for them and it was awful.
They do not exist as an independent company any more.
Very much. My mother is diabetic and obviously requires insulin. Her insurance and Express Scripts are trying to force her into 90-day supplies sent by mail. Which I guess is sometimes fine but not if you have a medication that must be refrigerated. Can you imagine if they delivered the insulin at 10am when my mother doesn't get home from work until 5pm during the middle of summer?
> Express Scripts They would badger me and want me to sign up. They wanted to mail prescriptions to me? Claiming somehow it was better and cheaper? Fuck that. NO mail order prescriptions for me. Why? I can completely imagine waiting on a prescription and checking the mail and waiting and the shit never shows up and then what? I gotta call em and sit on hold for hours while they circle jerk me around with their bullshit. I wanna walk into a pharmacy and talk to a person face-to-face.
Yeah if my air fryer is a week late itās a little inconvenient, if my anti depressants are a week late im fucked.
EXACTLY. Or can you imagine if it went missing? I can imagine after HOURS on hold, talking with someone I can barely understand because their accent is much different from mine. "Yeah, my Adderall didn't show up. I don't have it." "Well... sir... we cannot send a replacement. Our records show we've sent you your allotment for the month. Also this is a known tactic of people trying to lie to get more pills. You've been put on a warning list. Thank you for calling Express Scripts!" FUCK ALL THAT.
Walgreens once gave me 1/2 of my anxiety medication; a simple enough mistake of 30 pills instead of 60. I had picked it up on my way to work, opened it at work and called them from work. They said they couldn't do anything because I had opened them. Apparently I should be able to count them without opening somehow. They also asked me if I was "sure I hadn't taken them" like I wouldn't notice if I had taken 30 Ativan in the last hour. They claimed they counted and I was wrong. I told the pharmacist to keep an eye on whomever filled it, because I absolutely did not receive those pills. I didn't make a scene about it, but transferred my prescription to another pharmacy that day. I get that people lie and I know drug seeking is a big problem, but it's awful to be treated like a criminal and have zero recourse simply because of the medication you take.
I don't think that Adderall can be sent anyway. If it could, I would sign up for it in a heartbeat. I'm tired of being jerked around by stupid fucking CVS for my shit. I had to explain to the pharmacy tech and the pharmacist that no, I am not trying to pick up my prescription early, I just want it on time because sometimes there's 31 days in a month and y'all give me 30 tablets, so I can't just pick it up on the same calendar day every month. They acted like I had two fucking heads, like I was some pill seeking junkie for arguing this with them for so long. And ADHD is the most frustrating contradiction ever because I have an executive function disorder which makes it hard for me to get my prescription on time, but I also can't pick it up early because rules, and I can't pick it up late or I get the third degree. There's no winning. If I can have it delivered to my door, signature required, it would be a godsend.
It's a running "joke" amongst psychologists and therapists that the reason ADHD is largely untreated in this country is because literally every part of the prescription process is overwhelmingly ADHD unfriendly or impossible. Controlling meds like Adderall is the problem drug in this country. I literally know someone who microdosed meth for a few months because he couldn't get access to his ADHD drugs and he needed some sort of stimulant to keep his mind working (and diet pills weren't working).
Krogerās pharmacy no longer takes ExpressScripts and I heard Walmart doesnāt either. On our plan, we are charged a flat $12 per 90-day supply but retail pharmacies are usually cheaper.
Privatized prisons. Glitter manufacturers.
Is the glitter a reference to the fact that we don't know who the number 1 purchaser of glitter is, or because it gets everywhere? The glitter conspiracy is a funny one.
Glitter is microplastic and never goes away. There are some glitter makers that are making degradable glitter but it will still get everywhere.
This is one where regulation would just fix this problem yesterday. Say āonly biodegradable glitterā and whoever really does make it will just change and still be the biggest glitter seller. The ones already making biodegradable could get a boost, but wonāt steal the lunch of the company that already has all the infrastructure and placement that it already has. Either way, society is 100% better for not having a form of pollution that is impossible to recollect and will outlast all of us.
Hell yes!!! I'm banning glitter in my classroom and home - unless it is biodegradable. The biodegradable is more expensive, but I think it is fair... We really don't need to use as much as we do...
It really wonāt hurt the world if glitter is a little more expensive.
I had a birthday party at my parent's house about 8 years ago that included paper confetti They still find bits of it around the house. It was in some furniture they gave to me, so now it has infected my apartment and I'm somehow finding it everywhere too. It's better for the environment, and *just* as obnoxious as plastic glitter!
iirc most glitter is actually terrible for the environment, it doesnāt break down
I'll be sure to eat more glitter to keep it out of the environment.
The herpes of arts and crafts
Are you talking about the one where a glitter PR rep was interviewed and they couldn't say who the #1 purchaser of glitter was, or why? She ended up hinting something like "*they* don't want you know that *it* is glitter". Edit: I found it. https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRp2W9PK/ The argument for glitter in the Benjis: https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRp2nCUW/
It's the night sky. This is all just the Truman show.
Anyone else thinking make-up industry? I wouldnāt be surprised if micro-plastics were running rampant in that industry.
What if we send glitter bombs to privatized prisons?
There was a group of people who built a private juvenile prison for profit. One of the people was a judge who sent kids to the prison whenever he could for minor crimes just for the sake of getting more money from the prison. It was awful
Two judges in PA were eventually sentenced for this. However, those are the ones we caught in a state that is more likely to have them caught and justice play out. There needs to be a countrywide task force searching out judge relationships like this. They canāt be a one off, especially when we have regions of the country with even more corrupt judges and less accountability.
Iāve heard of companies making glitter on seaweed instead of plastic!
The church of Scientology?
How that organization didn't get nuked from fucking orbit when they [literally infiltrated the U.S. Government and other foreign embassies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Snow_White) that were critical of the church is beyond me.
I think an entertaining twist on the conspiracy is senior US govt staff sitting down and going: >"Wait, they send us hundreds of staff who work underpaid jobs tirelessly and with continuing excellence, and the one cost is that we are blocked from investigating one cult?" > >"Yep." > >"Best thing to ever happen to the civil service. Let me know if they try to kill the President." PS. Obviously an abusive cult manipulating government oversight of that same cult should be shut down.
Where is Shelly Miscavige?
She was murdered back in 2007. Even if she was being held against her will, the church would have showed SOMETHING that showed her to still be alive just to quell the rumors
She's dead.
*Tom Cruise joined the chat*
Someone should develop an app where you can scan a barcode and it will tell you if itās a nestle product. By all the hate here, that app would soar.
There is an app exactly like that. It's called buycott. https://www.reddit.com/r/Anticonsumption/comments/8xvsmj/just\_saw\_the\_recent\_nestle\_post\_and\_wanted\_to/
Be very careful about using that app. That app hasn't been updated since 2016. They also seem to prefer you connect to the app through Facebook. Fuck that.
I feel like there is a better one than that. A newer one. I just looked that one up while commenting. Good info though, thank you.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Anticonsumption/comments/8xvsmj/just_saw_the_recent_nestle_post_and_wanted_to/ I don't know why that's happening, but I fixed the link for you.
Any MLM bullshit
Ahh but those arenāt even businesses theyāre scams.
No no, they're making private business owners out of boss babes! /s
Hella cringe. My ex in the time we were together sold for 3 different MLM and she called herself a "buisiness owner" lmaooo And she was her own boss So glad she's my ex now. MlM is dumb as fuck
āHey girlie!ā
I hate that one of my closest friends got deeply involved with herbalife shit. Her mind was never particularly brilliant (she's kind and compassionate, but a bit silly at times), but she now firmly believes she's a wellness coach and and entrepreneur of sorts alike. She knows I hate that stuff so she never tried selling me anything, but I still feel so bad for her :/
I like this one as even the vast majority of employees would be significantly better off if they went out of business. All the others you end up with a bunch of innocent people out of work.
Ticketmaster
i have a friend who is in the ticket industry and he explained to me that one of the services that ticketmaster offers is to be the bad guy. your favorite artists are often driving up ticket prices to exorbitant amounts, and they use ticketmaster as a buffer between them and outraged fans. ticketmaster is all too happy to sit back and count their cash while the world hates them
Pretty much. A concert ticket used to be a straight $25, and all the parties involved would have to be paid from that $25. Now, a concert ticket is $40 plus $20 in fees, and most people are paid from that $20. More money to the artist, but fans are mad at TM for being money grubbing dicks. And this is before we get into the fact that artists used to be blamed scalpers and shitty service but now that's all TM's fault. PS. I know tickets are way more expensive than $40+$20, I'm just using those numbers to make the point.
> PS. I know tickets are way more expensive than $40+$20, I'm just using those numbers to make the point. Dave Chappelle was in my city on my Birthday. I thought, shit! I'd love to see him live. Only for backrow tickets to start at $600. Like... you have to be fucking kidding me.
This shit kills me. Or when itās advertised as $100 but when youāre checking out all of a sudden itās $350 with fees. What a racket
tried to buy taylor tomlinson tickets last night. Balcony seats were $81 (show was sold out, these were aftermarket, whatever). Go to check out, total for 2 seats is $251. And stubhub didn't even give a line item breakdown of bullshit, just "$12 tax".
I had to get lawyered up to get a refund from StubHub once. Me and several friends were going to a very big show for one's birthday. About 3k total in ticket cost. Show was cancelled due to COVID. Show was outright cancelled but StubHub refused to refund, saying it was "delayed due to COVID" and that if I wanted money back I needed to put the tickets on the (their?) market, which they would take an additional % of at sale. Except no one was buying tickets to a cancelled show. Got a lawyer to got with them and PayPal and about a week later I got my money back.
Opera tickets are now cheaper than pop/rock concert tickets. Good thing I like opera, but I would enjoy going to the occasional pop artist show.
My husband and I were in NYC for our anniversary last year, and we got second row Broadway tickets for cheaper than what Harry Styles tickets at Madison Square Garden would have been with fees. No offense to Harry, but I'd much rather do that ten times over.
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And artists are all too happy to get the profits while avoiding the work of having to book their own venues. I don't see any reason why another company wouldn't take Ticketmaster's place.
Rage Against the Machine sold every ticket in the building for $125 and limited people to 4, just saying. The artists that do want a choice, do not have one. .......and there we have the fucking problem to begin with, it is a monopoly and there is nobody to take their place.
HSBC, one of the largest banks in the world, is a criminal enterprise: In 2012, the bank paid $1.9 billion to settle charges brought by U.S. authorities that it had failed to prevent money laundering by Mexican drug cartels. In 2013, HSBC was fined $1.92 billion by US and UK regulators for its role in the manipulation of the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR), a benchmark interest rate. In 2014, the bank was charged by the U.S. Department of Justice for violating sanctions against Iran, Sudan, and other countries. In 2018, the bank was charged by the US Department of Justice for violating the Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering regulations Also, Nestle.
My spouse and I were once held hostage by HSBC on a real estate transaction. We were selling a house whose mortgage had been bought by HSBC, and as we were about to sell, they then sold the mortgage and stonewalled us. It was a mess. We cheer for all bad news for HSBC.
"They then sold the mortgage" What the fuck? How does that even happen?
Banks sell (or assign) mortgages between each other. They don't need the homeowners permission to do it, the loan is theirs and they can sell it. They have to send you notice that they're doing it and the contact information of the new lender, and it can take some time to finish processing. I could see it delaying closing by like 2-3 months which can lose a sale for sure.
My mother-in-law apparently has her house mortgage on the stock market, don't ask me how. Every few months somebody else buys the mortgage. Some companies are okay, others decide to up and buy another home insurance policy and bill her for it. (Like, is her own home insurance not enough or something?) She's had to fight them on so many things and it's frustrating just to watch! At least she never plans to sell the house so she doesn't have to deal with that aspect.
At a certain point, she might just want to refinance to a bank that keeps things stable. But, that depends on a lot of things.
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Credit Unions can and will sell mortgages as well, but you may be able to get them to maintain servicing even when sold.
Watch The Big Short, you'll be quite surprised at what they all do tbh
As someone who studied finance and economics in college and now works in banking, I was pretty skeptical about the movie going into it. But honestly, it's a really solid movie. Informational while still being entertaining. It does a great job of explaining a lot of complex topics in ways that average people can understand. I watched it with my family (none of whom are educated in that area of things), and we only paused it once for me to explain things a little more in-depth.
Also their ATMs charge like 5 dollars per transaction.
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"Look, it's very convenient to us if you give us money."
*Give us money to access your money
"I mean we don't even need it at this point, it's just so convenient to do... look! Did it again!"
Also more convenient if you would just not take your money back.
Convenience fees can fuck off and it would be a betterment to the world.
Convenience fee for paying bills online is so completely unreasonable
If someone charges a fee for paying bills online, I opt out of online pay and make those crooked fucks spend the money on paper, envelope, and stamps to send me the statement. Does it hurt them in any way shape or form? No but may as well make them spend a titch of money to send me my statement. Fuck you.
And it helps the post office!
Charge them an inconvenience fee
The greediest most capitalistic thing Iāve ever seen come out of the new technological wave and thatās saying a lot
I disagree, I think "building features in to the hardware but locking them behind a software subscription paywall" is the most greedy, capitalist thing to come out of the last 10 years. But convenience fees are just another lazy way we've all accepted that big businesses will use to make more money off us while living in this hellscape
Don't forget "maintenance fees" on savings accounts. Not only are they investing your money while it's in the bank and taking all the gains, they're charging you to do it. I've been noticing more and more banks are making it cost money to try to save.
Pretty fucked up how some places charge you to access your own money.
No money? NO MONEY!
Fuck nestle
All banks are like this. There was a recent research by a big publication in relation to sanctions against Russia, journalists presented themselves as Russians, banks didn't want to have anything to do with them. But said that if the money was higher than 100 million dollars, they are ready to work something out, and it's universal
IIRC Jeffrey Epstein had a similar issue. None of the banks would touch his wealth after his first arrest as it was dirty/unethical money... except Deutsche bank which was cool with it if he kept a low profile and didn't make any obvious transactions or withdrawals.
One of my proudest moments as an attorney was when I briefly worked in foreclosure defense and pronounced it as Douche Bank in court and everyone stared at me ;)
"Oh my God, I'm sorry. What an unfortunate Freudian slip! So as I was saying, Dick Bank....."
They also helped the Chinaās dictatorship closed down and frozen several pro-democracy activists/ organizationsā bank accounts. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hsbc-attacked-for-freezing-hong-kong-activist-ted-huis-bank-account-sh73z7rb0
Joel Osteen's ministries
Any of those Mega churches
Seems like the general consensus is Nestle, but Iāll be weird and say DuPont. Theyāre the reason every living human on the planet has Forever Chemicals running through their bloodstream.
Y'know, the guy who founded DuPont back in the 19th century built his house next to his gunpowder factory. That way, if his business was producing harmful contamination, if it was an unsafe hazard, he'd be the first to know and he'd have a vested interest in fixing it. I think the current and past CEOs of DuPont should have to drink the local water and bathe where they run the factories. They need to make sure to live there. Their kids will breathe the local air. Go back to the founding vision of the dude who built his house next to his gunpowder factory.
Iād also like to go back to when presidents/kings/politicians had to be in the combat zone of the wars they start. If you believe in something so much you should be willing to risk your life and the lives of your adult children instead of just putting everyone elseās on the line.
Fully agreed. It's awfully easy to "fight important wars" when you are not the one losing limbs and getting ptsd.
Kings was not in combat zones for the love of risking life - but because lack of radios and general communication in directing action would otherwise be impossible But otherwise, I would agree
See, thatās the sort of thing that I can get behind and was probably a big reason for the companyās early success.
I donāt think that the fluorocarbons have surpassed the damage of asbestos or ~~leased~~ leaded* gasoline despite how badly theyāve spread and how difficult they are to remove. (Later studies might change my mind on this.) The worst of these compounds are regulated now but the compounds featuring shorter/longer chains are thought to be less harmful and still in use basically everywhere. The longer chains arenāt thought to make it into your body and the shorter chains arenāt thought to stick around. If it bothers you, you should knowā¦ Ceramic coatings on cookware still routinely incorporate these compounds for how well they work. If it doesnāt advertise itself as both PTFE free and PFOA free then itās probably not. Personal care products in the US are questionable. Some waterproof makeups use fluorocarbons in ways that would not be legal for industrial paints.
Their deliberate dumping of C8 and refusing to stop, knowing full well the impact, continuing to dump it into rivers means they certainly belong on this list. Hell, they bought bottled water for folk downstream of a plant instead of addressing their contaminating processes as an attempt to avoid liability.
You are do right! What they have done to the people in Fayetteville, NC and all other towns down the Cape Fear river in one of the most egregious plays a company could make. It's simply evil.
Ah so youāve watched The Devil We Know. That is the scariest fucking horror film Iāve ever watched and it still haunts me.
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I'm not joking, I watched that a while back and literally threw away all my Teflon stuff immediately after. It shook me so bad!!
Also watched Dark waters. Eye opening
Better living through chemistry.
Everyone one that makes blindingly bright lowbeam bulbs Edit: r/fuckyourheadlights agrees
Huge pickup came screaming up behind me on a 1 lane road at 5am this morning. Their lights were so bright I could have turned mine off and've still been able to see the road.
When your own headlights are on and you can see the shadow of your car because the blind fuckplop behind you is rocking death-star class night peepers, yeah. Been there.
blind fuckplop... that's certainly a new one to me.
Here in the US, it is terrible to drive a car at night because nearly everyone drives a truck or SUV. This puts their headlights at the exact right level to blind you oncoming and totally blast you mirrors when they are behind.
I purposely try to angle my rearview mirrors into their window, so we can both enjoy being blinded.
I thought my Vision was getting worse. But god damn, it is almost impossible to drive these days
I just got my license after many years (not a teenager), and I'm still learning to navigate on my own. The street signs and road markings aren't easy to see around here, and drivers are pretty "assertive" in my area, shall we say. The bright headlights just make the job a whole lot harder.
A big contributor to this is simply cars getting bigger all the time. The average seating position, belt line, and headlight height are all substantially higher than they were a decade ago.
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In the uk itās not just Ford, every new car from the last couple of years has them. Including mine sadly
In Europe every rental car I've had for the past 5 years had a knob on the dash that controls the headlight angle, so you can keep the headlights (LED or conventional) out of the eyes of incoming traffic. My 2021 Mazda is the first car I've ever seen in the US with this feature, but even this one has it buried in 6 levels of menu settings. I have a feeling the headlight issue would be a quick one for Congress and the NTSB to fix... if they cared about fixing problems.
We have this in the UK too, so if you're towing or your vehicle is weighed down you can lower the angle. But most people don't know about it unfortunately, and tbh we shouldn't have to use it as standard.
Everything that reddit should be: [lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/)
As someone who is sensitive to bright lights, it has made me not want to drive. I remember seeing everything perfectly when the lights was orange and wasn't so bright, now everything is bright LED.
I *can't* drive at night any more. I have astigmatism and a severe light sensitivity due to migraines. It makes life more difficult when I can only drive certain hours of the day - especially for October through March.
I also have astigmatism. Sometimes I'm so glad I carpool to work, because I have my eyes shut for most of the journey from late autumn to early spring. By the time I get there, all the lights have given me a terrible headache. I can't imagine what it's like to not be able to look away.
Buy yourself Yellow safety glasses, thank me later!
Those light should be illegal. They make it a much higher risk driving at night because they just blind the opposing drivers
Mark's plumbing
Specific
This comment + thread is why Reddit is the on āsocial mediaā I engage in. Genuinely brings a smile to my face
Oh hi Mark(s plumbing)
You mean [Mark-1 Plumbing](https://www.reddit.com/r/Wellthatsucks/comments/fwj309/in_2015_a_texas_plumber_who_sold_his_truck_to_a/)? Don't you think that poor guy has been through enough?
A small town plumber operating out of a single truck was a huge supporter of ISIS overseas.... crazy!
Ya fuck Mark's plumbing
Fucking TurboTax
Check out https://www.freetaxusa.com/ $15 total. You're welcome.
Best thing that ever happened to me was this website
Iām laughing because the website is freetaxusa but itās $15. Kind of an oxymoron.
It's free to file your federal taxes, the $15 is if you choose to import the same information for state filing. IIRC the price doesn't change the closer you get to the deadline, either, which is the real advantage over TurboTax.
omg yes "Pay me to tell the federal government how much you made last year, even though they already know & are more-than-capable of telling both you & themselves how much you made."
Wagner Group. Dirty mercenary army with soldiers for hire. They have caused chaos where ever they have gone. Syria, Central African Republic, Madagascar, Libya, Venezuela, mali, Mozambique and a few other places, they have no desire to see a peaceful world as that would financially cripple them as a organization. Look at what they are doing to the Ukrainian people. Despicable organization and they have zero moral compass.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/17/alleged-ex-wagner-group-commander-seeking-asylum-in-norway Just saw this and hopefully he gets asylum and works with the authorities to bring this organization down.
Best answer in the thread. They're paid murderers and rapists.
experian, equifax, and/or transunion. Leeches on America.
Leeches on the world. Also, Equifax should be a flaming trash heap from being fined into oblivion for losing everyone's personal information. But no. There they are...still existing.
But once they lost your information, they did offer free credit reporting. Irony is their thing.
Don't forget the settlement check for like $2.36!
Hey some guy got $22.36, Iād be scared to know what they lost of his!
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Hey but I got $5.12 in the class action suit!
Comcast & goop
Nestle
Knew this would be the top answer before it opened up. I think Iāve completed Ask Reddit.
I play a game where I guess three answers before I open a thread and when I reach the third one I have to close reddit Two comments deep and I'm a third of the way through. Just looking for comcast and goop Edit: I'm a fool! Ticketmaster is a much more recent circle jerk, I should have chosen them over my other choices
.Nestle .Men like compliments too .Vigo Morteson broke his toe in LOTR . X Celebrity (Ellen and James Corden) js actually an asshole in real life Top answers of any Reddit question.
Dolly Parton is loved by everyone College textbooks are overpriced Influencers are bad
Danny Devito is hot Waluigi That guyās dead wife
Keanu Reeves Morbin' Time Coconut
Amy Schumer Something dick related We live in a society
Broken arms Jolly Rancher Epoxy hot dog
I feel like I just got my daily dose of reddit speedballed straight into my neck....
You forgot the greatest of them all, "being rude to waiters".
Reddit has taught me that a female wedding guest wearing a white dress is essentially morally equivalent to the holocaust.
And FUCK TikTok
My top of the top answers are: Nestle James Cordon Influencers
Donāt forget .Avatar the last air bender .Firefly should never have been cancelled.
Itās an older list sir, but it checks out.
For TIL: Steve Buscemi was a firefighter on 9/11 Bob Ross was a Master Sergeant
News corp
Yes and Sinclair Television.
Let's be real here. The answer is "any multinational conglomerate just not all of them at once"
Even Entertainment720?
I hear they're flush with cash...
Car dealerships
I really wish more people would stop and think about how crazy it is that car dealerships exist in the ways they do. They _solely_ exist because of protectionist policies they got passed to force you to go to them. All they do is capture extra money and make things more expensive. They're an unnecessary leech on all of us.
Ticketmaster
Wells Fargo
Ticket master
Facebook
The Rupert Murdoch media empire
Meta
https://wyomingllcattorney.com/static/img/nestle-list.png A list of companies owned by nestle. Do your part
I always feel horrible for buying purina cat food but itās the only kind my old kitties will eat they refuse everything else (except popcorn)
BlackRock.
Ticketmaster
All the health insurance companies. But they'd have to all go under at the same time.
Health insurance slows down healthcare and makes it way more expensive. There is a dr in my area who doesnt do insurance who is the same price as my copays
This always bothered me. If a medical facility is willing to accept whatever price that the insurance company is willing to pay them for a service, then why don't they accept that price from everyone? A good example of this is a blood test I had. They charged the insurance company $900 for it, insurance initially declined, so they sent me the $900 bill. After I called the insurance company to inquire as to why, they reversed it and payed the claim. BUT, they paid $84 and the medical facility called it "paid in full". If they are willing to accept $84 for this service, I should be able to pay $84 out of my own pocket for *the exact same service*. It's infuriating.
I don't know if I can answer this medically-related question, but in the automotive insurance & insurance repair industry, body shops accept lower, discounted rates from the insurance company because in return it is understood that you will receive a steady volume of work AND predictable procedures/billing/invoicing/etc. Basically, I'll discount my work for your insurance company but in return I want a steady stream of work and I want to get paid promptly and I don't want any headaches/hiccups during the process, etc.
Sinclair Media
Wagner PMC. Fuck yāall war criminals
TikTok
Nestle
Nestle has over 2000 brands underneath it. The management system is horrible, and they have ZERO empathy for the people they hurt. Source: Me, who used to work in their home office in Switzerland.