Dont fucking use this. Let it lose money so it goes away. Amazon is awful enough and if this shit trend continues, Meta will get into healthcare too using posts, tracking cookies and purchases on the platform too.
AI doctors are probably going to be a thing whether we want them or not, one way or another in the near future. I don’t think it’ll be going away. https://health.google/health-research/
So basically this
Can you tell me why?
Healthcare is already heavily corporatized in the US, this is just another worsening step.
Have you used this service? Can you tell me if it’s better or worse than other medical services available?
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The hate for Amazon is real here I guess.
I haven’t yet.
There are a myriad of reasons why this is bad, and feel free to ask for explanation of any. This is just off the top of my head.
- A single large monopolistic corporation should not have access to your purchasing and medical history
- A single breach can now mean purchasing history and medical history
- Huge potential for ads targeted for a person showing up on a device that isn’t strictly theirs (like a family computer) that by doing so endangers their well-being.
- Reselling of “anonymous” medical info (it’ll happen) that is super easy to tie back to previously purchased Amazon info.
- Third-parties who purchase info not having as hardened security as Amazon leaving data out in the open
- AI/algoithmic price-gouging on items based on medical data
- Even more god damned lobbying for anti-patient/anti-consumer based changes to health care law with the financial power of Amazon behind it
- This sets the bar for other Big Tech and what they also have to do to stay competitive
- Contacting Amazon customer service for errant prescription/care charges
Do you really want Jeff Bezos and an Amazon Board of Directors death panel deciding what care you receive?
So if you can’t afford traditional insurance which is 100% a scam then why is this a bad alternative?
This isn’t a good alternative either. From reading the article it looks like this service is meant to screen less serious issues, and if those less serious issues need an in person doctor visit, you’ll need insurance.
The deeper problem is that if our personal data is gold, our medical data is diamonds. It may not be tomorrow, or a decade from now, but I guarantee any sort of contact non-medical corporations make with our medical data will result in a darker dystopia.
Targeted ads will be more invasive. Insurance premiums can be increased for “unhealthy” purchases. Medical coverage can be denied based on economic decisions. The list can go on. We would pretty much get a more perverse profit driven medical system if companies like Amazon start wiggling their way into medicine. Also regulations won’t keep us safe, you can thank lobbying for that.
For those not in the know, Amazon bought One Medical, they didn’t create it. I’ve been using it since before the purchase and it has been much much better than any past medical care I’ve recieved.
I really hope that Amazon doesn’t screw it up.
I can’t wait until every company out there knows that if I don’t have a certain product I die and jacks up the price for only me! I also can’t wait for my family to come over and see ads related to my very private diagnosis they know nothing about! I also can’t wait for potential cures to be blocked on my browsing profile because it’ll hinder Amazon’s profits!
And they will incorrectly bill you every single time and you’ll spend hours with billing for your insurance and one medical to sort it out and it’ll take months.
