I agree guest...most shops with any marketing skills at all will always attempt to 'up sell' if they see a dent/ding they should be writing a separate sheet and calling the owner with, 'hey we saw this dent in your right fender, if you want we'll fix it while it's already down and in the shop for blah blah amount'...not a thing wrong with this and simply good business. _________________ Have you been helped by a poster? Do you want to show your appreciation? YOU CAN !! Just simply click on the donate button and send them some coin!
About fifteen years ago I was shopping in a grocey store when I noticed a little kid (maybe 5 or 6 years old) running around a cigarette rack, stopping then running past a register,(you could only see the top of his head) to the lobby of the store then returning and doing the same thing again.
After a couple of times I notice there was an older man and he was handing something to him. This guy was having the little kid steal for him,
and when I alerted the cashier they both ran off...
Fifteen years later and I wonder where that kid is now.
I bet it is not college...
WOW what a sad story.... _________________ Have you been helped by a poster? Do you want to show your appreciation? YOU CAN !! Just simply click on the donate button and send them some coin!
What really gets to me is how people to commit insurance fraud (SSDI as it pertains to me) make it harder for people like myself to make legitimate claims and people just tend to assume if you're on SSDI you're 'faking.' Perhaps some of my perception is because I'm only 28 and on SSDI, but I LOVED working. I was on SSI before 18, but as soon as I received my Ticket To Work I used that sucker and went through a vocational rehabilitation program. Unforunately after going to school and working for almost 9 years (and losing my absolute dream job, even with accomodations and a great boss who really understood my issues) I had to reapply for SSDI because my health took a turn for the worse. It seems like fraud has almost become synonomous with SSI/SSDI nowadays. Even people who know of my health history and know I'm only able to leave my home once a week or less outside of Dr's appointments still ask me "wow, how'd you pull that one off?" when I tell them I'm on disability. They assume because outwardly I 'look' fine and do not fit their stereotype of a disabled person I must have committed some type of fraud or lied to get on it!
I think one of the worst things though is that I do see a lot of people who committ insurance fraud on SSI/SSDI because I see the same doctors they do. More than once I've overheard people at the check-in counter (even though I shouldn't be able to with HIPPA) being turned away because they were trying to obviously use someone else's medicaid card! One time a mother was trying to use her child's well-child insurance, but she figured I guess since they had the same name nobody would notice, lol.
As the OP mentioned, I don't think a lot of these people think beforehand how they are going to look to others or even moreso how they will affect others who legitimately need care. More and more I have to prove to my insurance company that I need what my doctor is prescribing me. It is ridiculous when I am a type 1 diabetic that they make my doctor confirm and reaffirm month after month that I still need the insulin they prescribe me. I will ALWAYS for the rest of my life need it, but because a lot of people don't take their meds or get them for other people I have to get labwork (an HBA1C) done to prove I am actually taking my insulin, which me just being alive should be enough proof I am taking it since I will die if I go even a day without it! Sigh...I'm done venting.
Journey you're preachin' to the choir honey, so sorry a young person like you HAS to be on disability...You are correct though in nearly all insurance claims, there is a minor assumption of fraud (especially disabililty and injury) because it is so rampant. It hurts those that truely need it...
Hoping and praying that your health will some day improve. _________________ Have you been helped by a poster? Do you want to show your appreciation? YOU CAN !! Just simply click on the donate button and send them some coin!
