USA please get your shit together. That’s so dytopian my head hurts. And you are a vision of the future for all other countries. Thank god I’ll be dead by then.
I’ve known this was coming for a few years after the CEO of my previous mental health employer told us he wanted to grow the company large enough to compete with Amazon who were going to be entering the primary care and mental healthcare field. He also warned of Walmart following suit.
It was a hard pill to swallow and I hoped he was wrong, but here we are… It’s going to be a scary time if monopolies like Amazon and Walmart strangle out real providers and fuck up our healthcare industry even worse. We need these fuckers to have this fail spectacularly to preserve the industry.
its really tough seeing dystopian satire become the norm.
Right!?..
I have joked for years that we are living in a simulation and in 2016, they cranked up the satire and absurdity levels. Then in 2020, they cranked up the suffering factor, but left satire and absurdity turned up.
It has seriously felt like living in The Onion universe these last few years.
Totally! You already have it bad enough.
Sadly, the critical group will always be inferior to the ignorant or clueless. And hence could be ignored for decision-making. It won’t fail. Just throw enough moneyz to marketing and people would even buy your bath-water. Luckily Amazon doesn’t have that many moneyz. /s
yup when other countries politicians see how deep we will take it they want that for themselves.
Well, in the end, that’s the ironic part. The american dream of freedom. You really got it. Sadly noone ever asked if that freedom should be for companies too.
oh they did actually. its called citizens united and ruled that corporations are super citizens with all the benefits of a person but none of the disadvantages.
what the…for real?
eyup. says money is speech to. so no disrupting corpos freedome to bribe. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citizens_United_v._FEC#Opinion_of_the_court
Jeeez. I stand corrected. And baffled.
superpacs would not exist without that law. With the law superpacs have been deciding the canidates to choose from since.
Wanna bet politicians will speedrun that shit, so just in time for us to die while suffering the effects! :D
Giving Amazon your medical history… what could possibly go wrong.
Me on Amazon: I’ll buy some of these.
Amazon: according to your medical records we have decided that it is against your own health interest to purchase this product, so we cannot sell you this product, but here are some Amazon approved alternatives.
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I mean Google and Facebook probably already know what diseases I have/will have long before Im diagnosed
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In have used OneMedical since 2015. They have been by far the best experience I have had with a PCP. I have described them as the Costco of doctors offices. I pay a membership fee and have had none of th3 wait time issues you’ve described. I am concerned about the Amazon acquisition, but HIPPA is fairly strong.
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but HIPPA is fairly strong
Hopefully they abide by HIPAA too!
I think I’m going to stick with my local hospital network and pharmacy. I’m doubtful that my health problems can be solved by a company with a very poor reputation on worker safety and wellness.
"Could you please pee into a soda bottle and hand it to the nearest Amazon delivery driver? They’ll know how to handle it, don’t worry, we’ve been training them for years "
What could go wrong?
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!
welp.
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.
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.
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?
A poster above has.
I don’t trust Amazon to shop with.
I expect it’s only a matter of time before there’s a huge HIPAA violation when we find out they’re using health info to sell us shit.
😂
The hate for Amazon is real here I guess.
