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Tell HN: One Medical Is a Nightmare

rrincebrain about 5 hours ago 2 comments
I thought I'd relate an incredibly broken tech stack story, and its human consequences, to HN today.

I used to have One Medical access through work, years ago, it was perfectly fine quality care, and then I stopped using it.

I recently needed to find a replacement primary care and decided to try them again.

Unfortunately, after a few weeks of initial care transfer and appointments, my account is now in a Sisyphean nightmare state, where it thinks I have an expired membership expiring in the future (September 2026), and as a result, errors out on any attempt to update my membership status.

Attempting to contact their support has been an exercise in repeatedly being hung up on when attempting to put me on hold to escalate, and/or having their staff decide that if they repeat the instructions enough times it'll work.

You cannot make a second account, because they notice the duplicated personal data and insist on deduplicating it before providing you care, which appears to be how we got into this nightmare state in the first place.

Amazon support says they can't do anything because it's a One Medical problem, One Medical support says they can't do anything because they have no power to do anything.

Now I'm going to need to find another medical provider on extremely short notice, because I've been trying for two weeks to try and get this resolved with them and failing, and I am going to run out of some monthly medication renewals if I don't.

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apothegmabout 2 hours ago
They were fine up until about a year ago. Amazon has finally started to put their fingerprint on this acquisition, and of course it’s at the expense of the fantastic customer experience that used to be the selling point. Instead it’s all about cutting costs at the customer’s expense while undercutting the competition to put them out of business.

I’m staying for now because the GP I’ve been seeing for years is fantastic and continuity is important to me given current medical status; we’ll see how long that lasts.

Johnny_Bonkabout 2 hours ago
The modern day dystopian sysiphean nightmares are the worst. Sorry to hear that, hopefully it gets resolved.