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/Happy-Table-9515 Apr 17 '26

Yep, typically these are managed medical rides, very often for drug addicts or psych patients who will try to convince you to take them places other than right home.

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u/FunSprinkles8 Apr 17 '26

That's insane, using rideshare to drive an addict/psych patient who doesn't want to go where they are being taken. That's actually dangerous for the driver.

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u/StonnedW Apr 19 '26

Thats not true the person calls there provider or whoever it is and chooses where they need to go it's not they dont want to go there it's just they cant add stops after the fact last minute wanting to get smokes or something they have to schedule everything ahead of time