How the United Healthcare and Trinity Health situation is impacting local residents

United healthc Care recently announced they are dropping Trinity Health of New England 22 news reporter Clare Overton is live after digging deeper into how this will impact those in our area with United Healthcare as of July 1st United Healthcare no longer includes Trinity Health within their Network and local residents impacted by this change are worried it's shocking it's appalling it's scary many people under United Healthcare have their doctors through Trinity and one of their biggest concerns prescriptions and medications we both do we both have meds that we're going to need filled between now and then and it's a gamble whether or not your doctor will feel sorry for you from the past and allow you and I don't even know if legally they can also uh kind of a health risk if I you know if I end up in a situation where uh I I can't get the medications or I all of a sudden get a you know pay a whole lot more for it that's going to definitely affect uh you know my you know my my life you know my wife's life some people 22 News spoke to impacted by this problem have decades long relationships with their doctors that they don't want to lose and Andy like I say he's had his doctor for 40 years I'm my doctor for 22 I've been with Trinity and now we don't have doctors according to United Healthcare we don't have a hospital we don't have doctors it's insane you've had a friend for 20 years you lose them you know you can't I won't be able to make another 20-year friend when you're looking around with doctors you know you're calling up you say okay you know th this this area is you know somebody I want to see and then you you know you try to something and they say they're not accepting new patients the situation is also nerve-wracking financially for people involved if something does happen and one of us has to go to a near Hospital we're going to end up paying part of it or all of it it is unknown how many people are impacted by this situation however some are going to be able to navigate it better than others and the other thing is what I feel about for us a lot of these people that are in our age bracket that don't have a vehicle that they can drive sure that you know are just collecting their social security to live and they're going to end up paying oh if they do or it's a death sentence to them may I mean they could die yeah people could die because of what's going on when we reached out to Trinity Health they said a cooling off period to provide in network access will continue until August 31st if patients have further questions they are encouraged to reach out to Trinity Healthcare directly we've posted their contact information on our website wwlp.com working for you CLA Overton 22 News