The company I work for pays for our medical premiums so all we pay is co-pays and out of pocket expenses. It’s honestly a huge blessing.
I was 6 months pregnant and became severely dehydrated, throwing up so much that I started to continually throw up bile. It went on for a long enough time until I couldn’t feel the baby moving anymore. Went to the ER and was able to get the vomiting under control, increase my fluids and confirmed via ultrasound baby was not negatively impacted. Such a huge relief.
A few weeks later the HR executive and CEO have a company wide meeting to tell employees if they want the company to keep paying for medical premiums, then employees had to “help” reduce costs by having a primary doctor instead of using emergency care. Okay, that makes sense I thought. Then they added, “for example going to the ER when you are just simply dehydrated. That is NOT appropriate use of emergency care.”
It was a slap in the face.