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by mark_l_watson 4630 days ago
I lost my group health plan, which I had for fifteen years, recently so I has experienced the web site first hand :-)

My latest complaint: I logged in many times last week to fill in information, a bit at a time before I lost access.

Then starting Sunday morning I could no longer login. On the phone last night I was told that they had wiped all stored passwords and to follow the "I don't remember my password" link. Couldn't they have posted that as a huge banner message and let people know? I had four days of frustration trying to login.

Then, when I got the reset password link, and followed it, one of the profile verification questions they asked for resetting my password WAS A QUESTION THAT I HAD NOT BEEN ASKED so I had no way to answer it. I wrote down my profile questions so I am fairly sure of this. wTF

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To play devils advocate, have you tried logging into Aetna, Cigna, Blue Cross Blue Shield, etc recently?

Just as fucked in terms of passwords being screwed, lockouts, other such nonsense.

Well, I'm glad to see the health insurance situation is improving...
No, but I've signed in to Facebook, Google, Reddit, etc. It's a solved problem.
Most cutting edge computer science folks like to make money selling ads not selling cheap insurance.
Strange, it was national news they'd wiped all passwords ... as you say, we can't imagine why that wasn't in a banner message.