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.
TIL Amazon has a medical plan
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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.
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.
Different parts of your data in different hands.
The American healthcare system can get shittier! Who knew? Well done, Amazon!
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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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.
Oh. Appologies. Keep it that way if you wish.
