Originally Posted by
flyTheBigFatLady
to correct you
you are not getting an insurance
EK is covering the costs of a doctor visit. There is no choice in doctors as most of, better literally everything has to be approved by EK medical service. Since their internal cost cutting Programm on medical benefits it became more and more difficult to get approval.
If you have a friend there, have a look into his medical card. In general it says “referral only” and it’s meant so. Even if you walk into a emergency it can happen that the will ask you to call medical benefit first to get the referral.
otherwise you go pay and claim which can be super long process until you get your money, if not somebody decided that the treatment you received is way out of standard and EK coverage, and therefore it will only be partly reimbursed.
secondly you are becoming a cost factor which in fact led to all the redundancies and in future your sick balance and the involved costs will decide over your career path (e.g command upgrade - that’s from an internal source).
thirdly there is a problem with data protection. For the sake of paying your doctor visit EK demands every single detail of your treatment. Once this information is within EK literally every single person (including flight ops) can get information about your doctors visit, and can and will eventually use it against you.
back to why people where chosen to be made redundant- and/or have been rejected during the rejoining process, at a point where you have not given any detailed health information or haven’t been examined by a EK doctor.
so good luck with your “insurance”
Absolutely true… Good friend of mine had an accident, ending up in the the emergency room with a complicated fracture in his left arm…
Doctor’s refused to start a treatment until they’ve had been given the approval by the EK insurance 🙄🙄 Ohhh BTW this happened on a Friday (at that time) 😂😂
Delayed the process by four hours 🥵
Good luck with that….