'Let me do my job': Karen refuses to listen to insurance employee's advice, ends up getting zero coverage

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    r/r/MaliciousCompliance Posted by u/TrikkiNikk 19 hours ago Karen doesn't want to follow enrollment procedure M OC Some many years ago I worked customer service for a company that managed a Medicare Part D plans. And the annual enrollment period rolled around. And during that time it got chaotic! On top of the usual caring for customers, answering their questions, fixing problems, we had to enroll people into our plans. And it was a bit of a process. There were questions that needed to be asked
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    Then we get to the end, and I explain that I have to read her the terms of service and I need her to verbally confirm yes to it all. Immediately she starts carrying on how she just doesn't have the time to listen to it. I tell her I am legally required to read this to her. She doesn't want to hear it, just sign her up. I explain again that to complete the sign- up process I have to read this to her and she needs to acknowledge it. Another round of she doesn't want to hear it, doesn't want to agr
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    By this time I'm thinking "Lady, if you had just let me read this, instead of arguing with me, we could have been done by now," which I couldn't say. Instead, I inform her that I have to read this agreement to her and she needs to verbally agree to it. If she doesn't, I will not be able to sign her up for Medicare Part D; she will not have a Part D plan; she will not be able to enroll in a plan until the next year's enrollment period; and she will have to pay a fine for not having a plan this ye
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    Of course, I don't sign her up. And I write down the whole incident in the call log, that I explained several times that I needed to go over the agreement and get her consent, the penalties to her if she didn't, that she refused, and that I did not sign her up.
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    Several weeks after the new year, a co- worker sitting near me gets a call from a woman who is furious that when she went to get a prescription filled the pharmacy wasn't able to run the insurance on it, and when they checked that she didn't have a Part D Oplan. The co-worker asked for the woman's name, which was the woman who I didn't sign up. My co-worker checked and said the caller did not have a plan with us. Worse for the caller, we could not enroll her since she had missed the enrollment p
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    jnelsoninjax. 20 hr. ago Karen's never listen... seriously it was a good thing that you left extensive notes in the system about the whole thing, otherwise she could try to say she wasn't told (typical Karen behavior)
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    platoface541 19 hr. ago To be fair the bureaucracy of the insurance world needs to burn in flames
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    TrikkiNikk OP. 16 hr. ago To be fair, in this case the bureaucracy is federal government. Callers asked all the time "Why? Why?? Why??? Who came up with this?" Well, it's Medicare, so that would be your Senator's and Representative. The company I worked for at that time was required, by law, to follow all the guidelines they set up.
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    LashlessMind - 19 hr. ago Imagine how much easier things would have gone for everyone if the US had a functional single-payer healthcare system, rather than a process to funnel money from the masses to the few, with some incidental health care along the way. "I have a prescription". "Ok, thanks, I'll fill that for you". <wait a few minutes>. "Here you go."
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    1 ZenGunner8 20 hr. ago The best part? We all know that she had all the time in the world and truly did not have anything else to do.
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    chaoticbear 20 hr. ago I may roll my eyes and and moan to myself when I'm working with customer support, but I absolutely do not around when it comes to "this person can keep me from getting the drugs that keep me alive". for This truly and deeply this woman, I hope that she found another solution. (not blaming you, OP, it's lose-lose for everyone here)
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    AngryCod 20 hr. ago . It's idiotic to have to jump through hoops to get medical care, and then to be denied medical care for a year if you don't get everything right. Yes, she should have just followed the process but the process is asinine.
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    Bad Wolf7426 18 hr. ago I worked the Spanish line at a place that sounds like Mal- beans customer care center during Medicare Part D. The part D providers were trying to soft transfer their clients to us and gave no which buttons they pushed. They had their metrics and while frustrating, I get it. Hand the customer to another warm body and dip. Couldn't rage, wouldn't do any good any way. Then THEY got mad at me when I answered, doing my spiel in Spanish. Haughtily grunting, "Don't you have anyo
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    (Like, don't show your in front of the client because you up.) Switching back to English, "Yes, we do. However, you specifically chose the Spanish speaking line. How... may I help you?" I was told a few times that the sarcasm veritably dripped from every word.
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    BridgeOverRiver RMB 19 hr. ago I understand getting fed up because you are constantly lied to by companies. The best result to hope for is a class action lawsuit and getting a check for $1.37 in about eight years.

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