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How the fuck can a bookstore evolve into a healthcare provider? Where the fuck are we living anyway? I need this to stop.
“Welcome to Costco, I love you.”
One medical is actually a pretty good service and it’s fucked up that Amazon bought them
See also: every other service Amazon has bought.
I miss when Goodreads had updates.
ROFL It’s tragic that Amazon is in the insurance game…That’s when you know it’s a true dystopian present getting started in full gear.
Started? Oh sweet summers child, Sony has been making more in the life insurance raquet than anything else Sony makes for decades… and they are one of the few megacorps I still buy from.
This looks like a low end concierge medicine program more than insurance.
I just tried to say something sarcastic but, yeah; In truth, I do agree with your assessment of Amazon OneHealth. As it’s a hybrid of a low end concierge medicine program with a tiny amount of insurance-like benefits.
Highjacking to shout out a good method to the madness that is American health insurance.
A terrible guide to the terrible terminology of the U.S. health insurance by brian david gilbert
While the US healthcare system is very broken, isn’t this actually a good deal?
From what I could find out you still have to pay the office you use. This subscription doesn’t actually cover the actual appointments.
I could be wrong, but that is what it seemed like to me.
My Prime membership pays for itself about 8 times over because the one medication I have is so cheap through Prime vs insurance.
But it’s a little worrying that the company famous for undercutting competitors to drive them out of the market is doing this with healthcare.
I work for one of the largest health care companies in the US and I can attest that they are genuinely concerned with what Amazon is doing right now.
If there’s anything good about this, it’s that insurance providers at least have plenty of margin to fall back on when lowering prices to compete.
Let them fight
Wait, this is real?
Why. Why does it have to be this way.
Yep. Unfortunately, this is real.
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