Re:Amazon Buys One Medical
by onemedthrowww on Friday March 03, 2023 @06:05PM
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I would not have understood the benefits until I moved to DC from a smaller town.
In my home town, it was relatively trivial to find a competent GP who took my insurance. In the much larger market of DC, totally the opposite! Which led me to using OneMedical for a while.
The main advantages they had a few years ago were:
- Multiple locations (including near my apt and work place)
- easy to schedule appointments on short notice with either my PCP (if available) or anyone else on their staff (if not)
- Very easy to communicate with doctors/etc online, generally their portal was "not shitty"
- Appointments always started on time
The downside was the extra cost (trivial compared to the hassle it was to deal with other services) and the staff being a bit more impersonal -- they really hurried you out of there, which is the flip side of always starting on time. :)
I've actually kept up my account even though I see a different PCP these days, since it felt like it could be useful as a fallback on short notice. I'm thinking about cancelling now that Amazon has bought them, though.
In my home town, it was relatively trivial to find a competent GP who took my insurance. In the much larger market of DC, totally the opposite! Which led me to using OneMedical for a while.
The main advantages they had a few years ago were:
- Multiple locations (including near my apt and work place)
- easy to schedule appointments on short notice with either my PCP (if available) or anyone else on their staff (if not)
- Very easy to communicate with doctors/etc online, generally their portal was "not shitty"
- Appointments always started on time
The downside was the extra cost (trivial compared to the hassle it was to deal with other services) and the staff being a bit more impersonal -- they really hurried you out of there, which is the flip side of always starting on time. :)
I've actually kept up my account even though I see a different PCP these days, since it felt like it could be useful as a fallback on short notice. I'm thinking about cancelling now that Amazon has bought them, though.