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phoo my mentions are Blown Up with the Fidelis post, which– good, if people are signing up on exchanges and know to avoid Fidelis like the plague, that was exactly what I wanted. I just felt so tricked.
To be honest I haven’t used hormonal birth control in years and it’s not really an issue for me, so I feel no personal worry or shame in kicking up a stink, I honestly have no personal skin in it– except that I’d like the option, I’m getting older and worrying about perimenopause and having unpleasant uterus-related situations that I forsee worsening, and would like to have all my options open when talking frankly to a medical professional about it, and isn’t it outrageous that I have to even think about this, because I’m a person with uterus-related concerns and that’s apparently a political act.
I want to start a letter-writing campaign about it but I don’t have the spoons just now. I’ve photocopied the letter NYS sent me (which they sent me months ago, I signed up with Fidelis in May for various reasons, I don’t know if I’m eligible to make changes right now but I’m going to try)– the other shitty things Fidelis did to me include not notifying me that I was enrolled, not giving me an option of choosing a physician, and assigning me one along with literally everyone else in that enrollment period who also clearly were not given a choice, because when I called that physician’s office the person on the phone was exhausted and said well, there are thousands of you, she doesn’t have an open appointment for the next eleven months, find someone else, basically verbatim. Talk about giving 0 fucks about your customers.
So I just– haven’t seen a doctor at all, let alone for my Uterus Problems, which is almost certainly what they wanted in the first place. But still.
Honestly what I really want is to have a bunch of stickers made up that say “Fidelis doesn’t cover birth control so don’t choose them if you can help it” in English and Spanish at least (and in this town, probably Burmese too) and go around and slap them on every advertisement I see. But I certainly don’t have the spoons for that, or the cash to fight a vandalism charge, so.
(I just feel like if you’re so proud of your oppressive religion you should be billing it as a feature. “If you don’t believe in reproductive freedom choose us! the only Moral™ alternative!” and the fact that they don’t indicates a pretty deep level of cynical awareness that birth control is an actual human necessity, don’t you?) (because holy shit something like 99% of Catholic women use birth control, this has been studied. The only reason the church can get away with its position is that they all have my dad’s exact reasoning. Get this, my Catholic dad married my Dutch Reformed mom and said well, I don’t believe in birth control, so I won’t use it, but you can do what you want, ok? and so she did, and he felt his soul completely unimperiled by this. That’s literally how it works for millions of Catholics, I assure you– smug privileged men who don’t think about it, and women who do what’s necessary. I guaran-fucking-tee you.)
phoo my mentions are Blown Up with the Fidelis post, which– good, if people are signing up on exchanges and know to avoid Fidelis like the plague, that was exactly what I wanted. I just felt so tricked.
To be honest I haven’t used hormonal birth control in years and it’s not really an issue for me, so I feel no personal worry or shame in kicking up a stink, I honestly have no personal skin in it– except that I’d like the option, I’m getting older and worrying about perimenopause and having unpleasant uterus-related situations that I forsee worsening, and would like to have all my options open when talking frankly to a medical professional about it, and isn’t it outrageous that I have to even think about this, because I’m a person with uterus-related concerns and that’s apparently a political act.
I want to start a letter-writing campaign about it but I don’t have the spoons just now. I’ve photocopied the letter NYS sent me (which they sent me months ago, I signed up with Fidelis in May for various reasons, I don’t know if I’m eligible to make changes right now but I’m going to try)– the other shitty things Fidelis did to me include not notifying me that I was enrolled, not giving me an option of choosing a physician, and assigning me one along with literally everyone else in that enrollment period who also clearly were not given a choice, because when I called that physician’s office the person on the phone was exhausted and said well, there are thousands of you, she doesn’t have an open appointment for the next eleven months, find someone else, basically verbatim. Talk about giving 0 fucks about your customers.
So I just– haven’t seen a doctor at all, let alone for my Uterus Problems, which is almost certainly what they wanted in the first place. But still.
Honestly what I really want is to have a bunch of stickers made up that say “Fidelis doesn’t cover birth control so don’t choose them if you can help it” in English and Spanish at least (and in this town, probably Burmese too) and go around and slap them on every advertisement I see. But I certainly don’t have the spoons for that, or the cash to fight a vandalism charge, so.
(I just feel like if you’re so proud of your oppressive religion you should be billing it as a feature. “If you don’t believe in reproductive freedom choose us! the only Moral™ alternative!” and the fact that they don’t indicates a pretty deep level of cynical awareness that birth control is an actual human necessity, don’t you?) (because holy shit something like 99% of Catholic women use birth control, this has been studied. The only reason the church can get away with its position is that they all have my dad’s exact reasoning. Get this, my Catholic dad married my Dutch Reformed mom and said well, I don’t believe in birth control, so I won’t use it, but you can do what you want, ok? and so she did, and he felt his soul completely unimperiled by this. That’s literally how it works for millions of Catholics, I assure you– smug privileged men who don’t think about it, and women who do what’s necessary. I guaran-fucking-tee you.)
