Are they going to commingle inventory on medicine too or do they already do this with OTC meds?
unsure how they would with cold stuff, and laws about pain meds and such
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#182Any way to look up costs for a specific drug?
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#183Earlier quoted context omitted.
As an American resident, I couldn't be more excited for Amazon to disrupt the reprehensible anti-customer practices endemic to the US healthcare system. Recently, I had a runny nose and no fever and thought, "what the heck, let's get a COVID test", and found out they are $200+ here in Austin.
The market puts a price on things to prevent people from frivolously wasting resources and to improve availability to people who actually need them. Edit to remove snarky tone.
What if someone who genuinely needs it can't afford the price set by the market?
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#184Earlier quoted context omitted.
I had a secondary exposure and my rapid test was $400. Thankfully I have really good insurance and didn't pay anything. My alma mater has an endowment of multiple tens of billions of dollars and was forcing students to pay for COVID tests after having on-campus lectures.
>Thankfully I have really good insurance and didn't pay anything. For the lolz. You are paying for it, you just don't get an itemized bill. It comes at the cost of extremely high 'insurance'. And if you think you're employer just absorbs that cost, realize that the extra cost would be in your pocket as wages if it weren't going towards healthcare.
Yes, if you want to get pedantic, I pay $300 a month (pretax) for very good insurance that covers both me and my wife. Given that we both got tested, that $300 seems a bit cheaper than $800.
> And if you think you're employer just absorbs that cost, realize that the extra cost would be in your pocket as wages if it weren't going towards healthcare.
lolz. This is quite the assumption. Wages have been holding steady despite massive corporate tax breaks. Why? Because corporations pocket the saved money without passing the savings onto employees. If I didn't get health insurance, it's quite unlikely that the savings would be passed onto me in the form of wages.
And even if I was given the wages:
1.) Wages are taxable. My healthcare is pre-tax.
2.) There's absolutely no way I could get the healthcare I currently enjoy for $300 a month on the open market. The risk pool for my company (Amazon) is so large that it effectively subsidizes my insurance.
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#185Truepill.com has api's for pharmacy fulfillment (including pharmacy transfers) https://docs.truepill.com/#introduction [disclosure : I work there]
This sounds interesting; Would be interested in knowing more about what you all do, and if you all hire remote :D
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#186Just a heads up, if you use this service PillPack and Amazon Employees have full access to your entire prescription history. Full name, social everything - it was common for employees to look up the info of celebrities / other employees for fun. Any prescription / healthcare info you give them will be sold back to SureScripts and used to sell you more garbage from Amazon ;) https://www.wsj.com/articles/amazon-mail-or…
>Any prescription / healthcare info you give them will be sold back to SureScripts and used to sell you more garbage from Amazon ;)
Literally illegal
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#187Earlier quoted context omitted.
> what are they doing with this data? As a company selling via the internet it would be handy to know what drugs/prescriptions a prospective client (via fingerprinting) is taking... it would certainly change what/if I marketed to them. Of course the concept of retail companies having even the slightest access to a customer's medical/health/drug information for marketing purposes is a compelling plot for Black Mirror…
Amusingly, right as I read this reply, I get a chain of heavily-obfuscated JS loading with the text Please verify you are a human Access to this page has been denied because we believe you are using automation tools to browse the website. Please make sure that Javascript and cookies are enabled on your browser and that you are not blocking them from loading.
Weird. I don't get it even though I use VPN + firefox w/ resistfingerprinting
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#188Kind of astounded at the responses in this thread insisting on believing Amazon wouldn't do anything nasty or obviously illegal with an individual's healthcare data. They've done nasty and obviously illegal things with all of the other data that passes through their systems, and yet here we are defending and getting excited about them further intruding into our lives.
It's not about trusting Amazon except to trust the company wants to stay in business and not commit regulatory suicide right out of the gate
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#189This strikes me as a tone deaf move for Amazon. They're increasingly losing consumer confidence and are starting, anecdotally at least, to be regarded as closer to a flea market or eBay than a trustworthy retailer. They really need to shore up the issues with tainted supplies in their core retail business before I would ever consider them for something as sensitive as pharmaceuticals, regardless of how much they prom…
I don't think this is a common perception outside of super a super plugged-in crowd that reads tech news.