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In reply to the discussion: Here I am in a new city, embarking on trying to find an Obamacare doctor. [View all]Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)The last time they assigned a dr. to me, that dr. had moved out the city over a year before. It took me over an hour to track that down.
When I called them and told them that that dr wasn't here, they assigned one I had already called and who told me they wouldn't take my ins.
Whenever I get the ins., I immediately set up my info online on their site. I access the provider list, the drug list, I download the policy documents, and I pay online.
So they're just looking at the same list I am. They also don't know the geographical area to know who is closer, time-wise. One provider was about 15 miles away...but it was on the opposite side of town, which would've required a trip through the heart of downtown, making that trip time consuming...and impossible if I were sick.
So I call. That's necessary. I've been doing this since the end of 2013. I've tried every way imaginable.
I used to do this for employer-provided insurance, but for those, I could use the list. Not for this. (The one I did find in Dallas...I think I started doing general internet searches, yelp, etc., and that's how I found one who would take it...1 1/2 hrs away.)