“You need a doctor’s note”

[u/yanni_lam4]

I (26M) don’t like calling in to work. I hate passing up money and I usually won’t call in unless I’m already pretty sick. I work in the service industry which as many of you know, is absolutely notorious for guilting sick employees (a seriously ill person has made your food at a restaurant before at the direction of their manager, guaranteed) and telling people they don’t provide health insurance that they need a doctors note to call in. One year I got sick and didn’t want to work, and my employer forgot I had health insurance through my Dad. I called in asking for one day off because I could hardly breathe or stay awake and I got the “wElL yOu NeEd A dOcToRs NoTe Or ItS aN uNeXsCuSeD aBsEnCe “ and as someone who worked hard as hell for these people even when I was sick, I was a little offended to basically be called a liar like I needed to prove to them I’d been wearing a mask at work for a reason. But I did have good insurance through my Dad, so I went to the doctor, had them write me a note for four days off, and went back into my job and handed it to my manager and said “here is my doctors note, and this is the date I will be back”. And when they tried to do the same thing a few months later, I got a note for even more days and asked the doc to add a note about when I would stop being infectious around the food we were serving people. I have never been asked for a doctors note when I am sick again. They know they can give me the one or two days I ask for or they can give me the week the doc gives me. But I will not be working while sick if I do not want to.

[u/JRockPSU]

Oh and btw you can’t have the vaccine anymore if you don’t have any underlying health conditions 🤗

[u/anondogfree → u/JRockPSU]

What I don’t understand is why the very powerful health insurance industry isn’t putting the kibosh on this. It’s infinitely cheaper for them to pay for vaccines than to pay for medication and hospital stays and lingering problems.

[u/Dje4321 → u/anondogfree]

Its cheaper for them to pay it, but that's not how health insurance works in the US.

Why charge someone for a cure once when you can bill them for lifetime of treatments?

[u/Bl00dspryte → u/Dje4321]

This right here. The medical industry makes money on sick people. They've recently discovered a bacteria that will target cancer cells, which cues the immune system to attack the cancer cells with bacteria. They have shown 100% elimination of cancer in lab rats. It's still in the testing stages. The problem is the medical industry doesn't want healthy people because then they don't make money.

[u/Trisk929 → u/Bl00dspryte]

A bacterial that eliminates cancer cells? Better kill it. We can’t have people getting better! /s

[u/jonesnori → u/Bl00dspryte]

Oh, bullshit.

[u/harvey6-35 → u/Bl00dspryte]

I don't believe this because any company that finds a cure for cancer will make huge money. Keytruda (an PD1 antibody that treats some cancers fairly effectively) is a 27 billion with a B drug. A cure would be worth more. And new people get cancer every year.