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Pharmacies and my supplemental health insurance. I hate it when insurance companies change the date in which my pharmacy can fill/refill my prescriptions. I went to the doctor about 2 weeks ago for my monthly wellness checkup and have him order refills on Eliquis (for blood clots) and other medications. I usually pick up my medications after the 20th of every month. Every pharmacy I went to near where I live got told by my insurance that they cannot refill my medications until August 8th. Let's just say that by the time August 8th comes around, I will be almost out of Eliquis. Also, I've been dealing with a fungus rash that required him to prescribe an ointment stronger than Lotrimin, so I had to pick up OTC Lotrimin, which is helping a lot, until I can pick my prescription up.
 
Aragorn said:
When a giant vehicle parks right next to you in the lot and you have to take forever to back out at a snail's pace because you can't see if anyone is incoming.
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What helped for me was back-up cameras. I had one vehicle I regularly drive that didn't originally have a back-up camera. When I updated the stereo to a multimedia player with a screen, I added a cheap back-up camera from Amazon, that I located right above the rear license plate.
 
I think drivers are becoming too dependent on backup cameras or any sort of cameras in general.
I think they lose 'situational awareness' by focusing too much on what's on the screen and not what's around them.
I've been driving thirty plus years and I can parallel park and back in and out of parking stalls using my rear view mirror and driver/passenger mirror with no problem.
 
DarrenTR1970 said:
I think drivers are becoming too dependent on backup cameras or any sort of cameras in general.
I think they lose 'situational awareness' by focusing too much on what's on the screen and not what's around them.
I've been driving thirty plus years and I can parallel park and back in and out of parking stalls using my rear view mirror and driver/passenger mirror with no problem.
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Agreed.

My truck has a backup camera, but I never use it. I've driven over 30 years without one, and never needed it.
 
DarrenTR1970 said:
I think drivers are becoming too dependent on backup cameras or any sort of cameras in general.
I think they lose 'situational awareness' by focusing too much on what's on the screen and not what's around them.
I've been driving thirty plus years and I can parallel park and back in and out of parking stalls using my rear view mirror and driver/passenger mirror with no problem.
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You must not own a car, or been in a situation with bad visibility from the sides. The rear passenger compartment of the Ford Mustang has side windows that are tiny and located behind large door pillars that house the shoulder harness. I also have a 1 ton high profile crew cab pickup with an 8-foot bed. The camera allows me to see objects behind, and below the tail gate, that you can't see because of blind spots. If I'm parked between two vehicles in a parking lot, where you can't see side to side, the backup camera allows me to see what is behind me from the perspective of the back bumper, rather than waiting until my vehicle is over halfway out of a parking spot, when the front passenger windows have cleared what is blocking my side to side view. I've only been driving for over 50 years, and cars from the before the 1970s didn't have those large pillars between the front and rear side glass for shoulder harness retraction mechanisms. My 2016 vehicles also have warning lights in the side mirrors to prevent entering into an occupied lane with a car beside me in a blind spot, and have warning tones when I'm in reverse and getting close to other objects. The backup camera in my pickup allows me to easily back up and hook up to a trailer, without the need for a spotter to guide me in.

I have cameras for my vehicles that record my trip from front and back, in one minute intervals. I was sideswiped by someone who decided to drive on the wrong side of the road, and then turn right into the back of my car. The video got her insurance to settle with my insurance company, and her insurance paid my insurance company and I got a check that covered my $2,000 deductible.
 
Car insurance.
Just spent my morning off switching to another provider.OMFG!
Whoever decided that fucking everything needs to be AI or online menu-driven needs to be publicly eviscerated.
No over the phone quotes,no humans involved at all…FUCK!!
Then the bloody cheek to say that “all for your convenience and we’re all about our customers”…horseshit!

Angry old man needs to take a breath…
 
The demise of 'service' in general insurance, including car insurance, started in the UK and no doubt elsewhere with the 'direct' insurers being able to shave a few pounds off over high street brokers, then of course aggregators followed later on. There are now very few high street brokers now you can go into for advice (most insurers won't even offer advice now) as they were largely unable to compete on a price basis.

There is no doubt service levels were better when you could deal with someone fact to face.
 
My mom has been wrangling with various streaming services all day. Disney+ has been asking us to "make a MyDisney account" to sign in, and we can't because it's my uncle who is paying for the account, and nobody involved knows what the actual fuck MyDisney is. CBC Gem is giving us similar struggles, we were signed in and it wants us to sign in again and when we tried my mom had to visit two different websites on her phone and it's just really annoying.
 
Wednesday, my primary care physician increased a dose of my prescribed medicine. I called the local Walgreens on Thursday to get the prescription filled. After a round with the phone answering AI, I verified with a human, they had the new prescription amount from my Doctor. They said they did, but it was out of stock. I get a notification on Saturday morning that it is ready to be picked up. I drive to the pharmacy, and they filled it with the lower dose medication, not what was newly prescribed on Wednesday. I had them check, again, to see if they have the new dose prescription from the doctor. They said they do, but it is on hold because they just filled this one, but with an incorrect dose amount. I told them to cancel that order and give me the correct dose amount, as prescribed by the doctor. It is also out of stock. Now I have to wait even longer because of their error. They make the mistake again, and I will have the Doctor's office send the prescription to Costco Pharmacy. Since I already reached the maximum allowed copay cost for Medicare for the year, it doesn't matter that Costco isn't in my Part D preferred in-network pharmacy.
 
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/\Best of luck.
Hopefully technology will improve to the point that the pain will go out of interacting with it but we’re not there yet.
Regarding the price hike,I think that insurers do that every couple of years.Counterintuitive to screw over existing loyal customers but searching for sense in the modern world is a mugs game.:brickwall:
 
In the UK the practice of giving new customers cheaper rates than existing has been banned.

What has happened there though is premiums for new customers where no longer discounted heavily and rates given now match renewal customers.
 
Here in the Colonies, we seem to have (actually, pretty darned funny) scads of Insurance Company commercials; but I wonder what the premiums are, and how much of the total of the premium cost is embedded in the actual cost of the commercials???
 
When I was involved in my auto accident last year where I rear ended the vehicle in front of me and received a ticket for distracted driving, I drove to my insurance agents office and spoke directly with a customer service representative.
I explained to her the reason I was distracted and that I was also in the process of moving.
Since I was involved in the Good Driver program and had not had a ticket or been involved in an accident since I joined the insurance company 20+ years ago, my insurance rates did not go up, and she bundled my car and renters insurance and my premium actually went down.
I have to stay ticket/accident free for the next 3-5 years.
If not, I'll get hit with a massive increase in my rates.
 
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