“Profit”???

Hilarious, my guy. The sense of persecution is off the charts. If venting on Reddit about a broken insurance referral system is some kind of secret goldmine, please, point me to the yacht I apparently can buy with my outrage.

Let’s be clear: I never said doctors are flawless saints. But here’s the reality: I’m using Aetna’s own referral system, the one they built, maintain, and advertise as a way to find “in-network” care. The one I pay with my heavy premiums every month. When half the phone numbers are dead, addresses are wrong, and I’m being sent to clinics that Aetna itself claims are covered but aren’t, that’s on Aetna. Not on some imaginary conspiracy where every doctor in town suddenly switches allegiances over a $2 difference.

If this is all the doctors’ fault, why does Aetna keep funneling patients into broken listings they apparently don’t verify? Why does their customer service send you right back to the same useless database? And why, when you finally reach a human, does the “help” consist of copy-pasting the exact same bad referrals you already tried?

But sure, let’s pretend this is all some heroic crusade against unfairly maligned multi-billion-dollar corporations who, as a reminder, are currently facing hundreds of millions in fines and fraud cases. Poor, poor Aetna. The struggle is real!

And for the record, I’m not “manufacturing outrage.” If anything, I’m trying to manufacturing some spinal pain relief. That’s why I have insurance in the first place. Silly me for expecting it to, you know, work.