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Re:Amazon Buys One Medical by reissbaker on Friday March 03, 2023 @06:36PM (#35016457)
Echoing other comments here, I use One Medical and am an extremely happy customer — I pay the yearly subscription out of pocket. Online scheduling + video calls at any time with their staff make it well worth it, and they have offices in many cities and states so I've even seen doctors and gotten bloodwork + vaccinations done while traveling (domestically in the US). My experience with their doctors has generally been top notch as well, including one doctor visually and immediately diagnosing a family hereditary condition that had taken my sister years to get diagnosed through other doctors. And since they have so many offices, I can pretty much always get a next-day appointment in the Bay Area. I've never had to wait a memorable amount of time once I show up, and they can do a lot of labwork immediately onsite if you need or want it without additional scheduling or needing a return trip.

I've traveled and lived abroad, and IMO One Medical clears even the relatively high European-style medical system quality bar.

Happy for them that they got acquired by Amazon, since the scheduling + online stuff is a big part of what makes One Medical great and Amazon is quite good at that.

Re:Amazon Buys One Medical by gniv on Saturday March 04, 2023 @06:15AM (#35020038)
Interesting that you mention the European system in a positive light, since I didn't have that perception before moving here. But now that I am in France I see it. Doctolib is amazing. I used to have One Medical and it was nice although I didn't use it to its full potential. But Doctolib, by dent of being adopted by virtually every doctor and facility here, is on another level.
Re:Amazon Buys One Medical by skinnymuch on Saturday March 04, 2023 @02:21PM (#35023628)
I believe a majority of Americans want universal health care nowadays. Capitalism is the problem in the US.