* Just buy an Android if you don't like it

* This is not the Apple way

* My grandma has much better experience this way, because I don't have to some made up reason why this is impossible on Android

* Green bubble

* Much more secure this way

* I don't like when someone has different use case than I do

* It would be even worse on Android

* Think of the kids

Did I forget something?

It's a whole ecosystem of enshittification.

Unmitigated bs.

Use your web browser and find an in-network hospital via the website. Like a person.

This article stretches the limits of credibility.

Garbage premise and clickbait title.

I could continue on to talk about the "walled garden" issue, but I don't think that step is even warranted given the facts.

It feels like how a minor problem (in the sense that the app is poorly planned) is escalated into a device/os and then a country + international problem

If your goal were to fix this issue for other people on your situation, you would push for your insurance to disable geolocation instead of complaining about the existence of geolocation which is opening a can of worms you have no bearing in and don't understand.

Fix your garden before you fix the world.

The web solves nearly all of the problems Apple and Google have created with their ecosystems.

The real takeaway here should be that life-or-death outcomes should never depend on some buggy app installed on your phone and maintained by a for-profit company that's more interested in protecting shareholder profits and executive salaries than in providing the critical service in question.