Amazon launches Amazon Pharmacy for prescription medicine delivery

Post by ev1 » Wed, Nov 18, 2020, 12:21 AM UTC

bqe wrote: post #215

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I'm curious who or what the end goal of GoodRx is. They pay for expensive ($$$$$$) cloud anti-bot/anti-scraping, captcha you after a few requests if you run adblock, they pay for extensive browser/device (attempting to reidentify a user across multiple devices/multiple browsers) fingerprinting services and Fastly. The site loads a dozen trackers, googletagmanager, branch, segment, what are they doing with this data?…

> They pay for expensive ($$$$$$) cloud anti-bot/anti-scraping, captcha you after a few requests if you run adblock, they pay for extensive browser/device (attempting to reidentify a user across multiple devices/multiple browsers) fingerprinting services and Fastly. This sounds like a great anti-account takeover program. I imagine with all of the various compliance programs they have to deal with and the legal risk,…

Post by nazgulsenpai » Wed, Nov 18, 2020, 12:26 AM UTC

drclau wrote: post #208

This reminds me of RX Limited, and Paul Le Roux. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_Le_Roux

Post by lotsofpulp » Wed, Nov 18, 2020, 12:48 AM UTC

bhupy wrote: post #210

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Taxes are basically risk sharing across the whole population. But I wanted to specify that it's not risk sharing like your auto insurance is, or home insurance, or term life insurance. Those are infrequent, random events for the most part. Whereas, healthcare is a guaranteed expense, so the premiums are just prepaying for the coming expenses. But today, you're not paying for your healthcare expenses, but for the olde…

It's incorrect to say that premiums are only prepaying for coming expenses, but not risk sharing. They cover both. That's the whole point, health insurance today is a bundle of all of those things. While FICA taxes (partially) pay for senior citizens' healthcare, your health insurance premiums both pay for your annual physical (especially on Platinum PPO plans) as well as care for sicker people that are not eligible…

Post by ytwySXpMbS » Wed, Nov 18, 2020, 1:27 AM UTC

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You will get old

I know. I wasn’t complaining about it being a tax. I wish it was implemented properly by dumping everyone on healthcare.gov and removing employers from the equation. And reinstating penalty for not buying health insurance. Or implementing taxpayer funded healthcare.

Post by claudeganon » Wed, Nov 18, 2020, 1:29 AM UTC

bhupy wrote: post #219

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“Access” in this context is just a weasel-word cooked up by hospitals and insurance companies to protect their bottom lines. Almost every other wealthy, developed country guarantees healthcare itself, not the right to get surprise billed or screwed by your insurance company. And even those countries that are closer to the American model (e.g Germany and the Netherlands) don’t let these industries get away with egregi…

> Almost every other wealthy, developed country guarantees healthcare itself, not the right to get surprise billed or screwed by your insurance company. I'm not sure who argued that "the right to not get surprise billed or screwed by your insurance company" is the optimum solution. The argument is that guaranteeing access to healthcare itself is attainable without price controls. > SNAP and ag subsidies are also just…