Amazon lowers cost of health care plan for Prime members to $9 a month
Amazon lowers cost of health care plan for Prime members to $9 a month
Amazon cuts price of One Medical membership to $99 a year as the e-commerce giant targets health care expansion.
Amazon is lowering the cost of a One Medical membership for Amazon Prime subscribers, shaving $100 off the annual fee to $99 a year. The step is the latest effort by the e-commerce company to mesh its chain of doctor's offices with its retail services.
Amazon already runs a web pharmacy and a telehealth service called Amazon Clinic that uses third-party medical providers to help treat less serious conditions, like pinkeye. It's also testing a service to drop medications on its pharmacy patients' doorsteps via drone in an hour or less.
A Prime subscription runs $139 a year, also offering streaming services and quicker shipping.
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Yeahhh that's no from me dog. Amazon already has too much of my data. I'm certainly not giving them access to my medical records.
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In a for-profit medical industry, what’s the difference? All those hospitals and medical conglomerates in your country are Amazon with a different name.
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As someone who works in medical I can say hospitals and other medical facilities absolutely can not sell your data without violating tons of hipaa regulations. I can say we can allow a company to come in and obfuscate data before selling it off. The big difference here would be there can not be any identifier that can link anyone (which happens with most companies that sell data), it's mostly data on trends. If you can prove otherwise that would be a hell of an amazing lawsuit.
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Different parts of your data in different hands.
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TIL Amazon has a medical plan
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So I looked into it, it's NOT health insurance. It's just access to use your health insurance at their video doctors and offices (mostly in major cities). The $9pm is to cover their admin because insurance won't.
My PCP already has a pretty good portal, and I've not had any issues getting prescriptions filled, why would I pay extra for access when everyone else gives that for free?
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The American healthcare system can get shittier! Who knew? Well done, Amazon!
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Healthcare from Amazon? Dafuq?
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Why would I ever give Amazon my medical data? Let alone pay them for the privilege of it being sold.
I don’t even like giving medical providers my medical data, and they’re bound by a lot more laws than Amazon.
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The health info they collect through this program should be covered by HIPAA.
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“Should”
I don’t trust it. I don’t really trust any other health provider, but at least they’re not interconnected with a ton of the rest of my life
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Hiya, this currently violates rule 4 with a spelling mistake "$9" instead of "$99". Please fix this.
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Post title matches the article headline. Headline says $9/month, article body says $99/year. In other words, buy 11 months, get one month free.
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Oh. Appologies. Keep it that way if you wish.
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