With a new ID number, the hospital thinks Iām a new patient and havenāt been before. It took about 20mins to find the right counter, but Iām assured that my old patient ID has been associated with my new ID.
I only have a Credit card with them that Iād applied at one of their booths in a Costco. They just shipped the card to me 2 weeks later with online credentials and everything has been working perfectly for a year. I have never actually visited their bank. Theyāve never asked for my name stamp either, until this error message now that wonāt let me login.
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Amazing 21st century āsmartā experience with Ro-āChineseā characteristics!
āAs we introduce new systems to make life easier for you, everything will slowly be deactivated and require manual intervention and time to get it running again. But donāt complain. Youāre just foreigners and weāre known all over the world as so niceā
This has to be done with every clinic/doctor.
Your NHI health data is linked to new ID.
But their own local records will not know about the change. When they scan your card with new ID, it will tell then you are not registered with them.
They have to fiddle with their system to update it.
I think we have learned that doing nothing would have been much better. I usually say ābetter than nothingā but this is far far worse than nothing.
I been having problems here and there with the new ID for the past 8 weeks, but I am a very patient man, so itās all right. But having two problems at once today really struck me.
Itās mentally exhausting having to deal with this. Didnāt need this today especially since my wife is upset and isnāt talking to me since yesterday, again.
Was already having a bad day, only made worse by the New ID!
This is such an ungrateful attitude after Taiwan has deigned to give you an ID number that nominally almost matches the ID number of Taiwanese citizens.
Less negativity, more appreciation of the inclusivity, please.
On a serious note, has there actually been any effort by the government to address all these issues, or any news articles about how shitty it all is? I donāt recall seeing any K-man articles on the topic since the new numbers were first introduced.
If it were up to me, Iād favor a moratorium on issuing the new numbers for a couple of years until the government figures out how to unfuck everything and do it properly.
Technically you can still use the old ID for next ten years and it is printed on the back of the ARC. But some institutions might insist in using the new ID (e.g. the Chunghwa post bank).
What was the reason for putting the foreigners identifiers in that spot instead of say character 3 or 4 in the ID?
Anyway no matter if it was deliberate or not (semi deliberate I guess), the damage is done and amplified by the need to use online verification systems.
Good work. Could you also included bad technical policy for the entities. For example many banks in Taiwan do not insist or even allow special characters in the password field, which is just a terrible design.
on which number theyāll put in there).