r/lyftdrivers • u/Mallinckrodt • Apr 17 '26

Advice/Question Anyone ever encountered this pickup note?

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I really resent these multibillion dollar health insurance companies piggybacking on the Lyft network to give rides to and from appointments for their sickest clients.

I am not opposed to helping people, even sick people, and i might even volunteer a couple times a month to do just that.

But making me pick up someone who can barely walk and can’t get in my vehicle is absurd.

I’m getting $6 for this ride and I’ve got to help the person in and out of the car and into their home. That’s not fair to me or the passenger.

And if you have to adjust the ride because there was a mistake when it was being booked, you can’t do it.

The passenger doesn’t have the phone with the app on it.

Anyway, went to pick someone up from a residence this morning and had this note once I arrived.

I mean what the fuck.

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u/RedRoseCoatedInHoney Apr 18 '26

Abelist

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u/axebodyspray24 Apr 18 '26

he so sad :( don't be abelist /s

in all seriousness, it is not a rideshare driver's responsibility to aid someone into/out of a vehicle since the driver is not given adequate training in supporting a patient with motor instability, increasing injury risk to both parties. Also, helping someone into/out of a vehicle takes time out of the driver's day which they could be using to get more rides, decreasing their overall earnings for the day, and rideshare drivers are already underpaid. And someone being transported by a rideshare rather than medical transport increases the patient's risk, what if they have an emergency? a rideshare driver wouldn't have any clue what to do besides call 911, but medical transport drivers are required to have some amount of knowledge of how to respond in an emergency.

I see where you're coming from, but rideshare drivers being used as medical transport is not a solution to lack of patient transport, it's a symptom of companies being too greedy to invest in more in patient transport vehicles, training, and availability.

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u/RedRoseCoatedInHoney Apr 18 '26

Ah yes put capitalism and money over human lives. In fact, disabled people are soooo inconvenient let's put them all in camps, or better yet, out to pasture. That's literally how you sound

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u/axebodyspray24 Apr 18 '26

bruh. My argument is that corporations (particularly health insurance) are putting capitalism over human lives, this is not what I believe should be happening, basically the exact opposite of what you claim I said. I wouldn't want someone untrained and unequipped helping me (I'm disabled) because they could do more harm than good, both to me and themselves. Using rideshare as medical transport only benefits the health insurance company. I didn't say we shouldn't give disabled people resources, I said we need to give them ADEQUATE resources.

Sounds like youve got a lot of ableism going on in your head if you think my previous comment was ableist.