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Comment by scarface_74 | Hacker News Reader

I find it hard to believe that the insurance provider didn’t have a website.

Here's the company (that manages the "frontend") for ours and a bunch of other insurance companies: https://www.nextcarehealth.com/

I couldn't find their Lumi / web based login. Maybe you can help me find it!

Hamburger menu -> Login

The login button redirects you to a page with a QR code for the application: https://www.nextcarehealth.com/download-lumi/

Or maybe I'm missing something, did you actually find a Login form there?

My bad. I have never seen anything so user hostile in my life. It looks like the only way that it doesn’t force you to use the app is if you go to the website from a computer. Requesting desktop site doesn’t do it and even using a third party browser that lets you change the user agent will still force you to use the app on mobile.

No idea how you're supposed to get there (I only found it with Google) but: https://www.nextcarehealth.com/healthcare-network

Thst still takes you to a QR code to download the app if you are on mobile

Not for me (chrome on android)

plenty of mobile-only banks here in (former?) europe. losing access to a bank account might be as critical as to an insurance one.

You mean with the way that the EU loves to regulate everything, they don’t regulate this?

There isn’t a bank that I’m aware of that is app only in the US. The one thing you can’t do from some bank websites is deposit a check. Which makes no sense either since you have been able to capture photos from web pages in iOS forever.

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