Poll of the Day > How would you feel about Amazon becoming a major health/pharmaceutical service?

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BigOlePappy
02/23/23 1:24:05 AM
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https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/22/tech/ftc-amazon-one-medical-deal/index.html

It looks like things may head that way. I like the idea of avoiding sick people, lines, and stuff, but mostly I would like for Amazon to challenge the status quo.

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PMarth2002
02/23/23 4:53:25 AM
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I would prefer Amazon not run literally everything.

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Nade_Duck
02/23/23 5:21:54 AM
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PMarth2002 posted...
I would prefer Amazon not run literally everything.
fucking this

i'm tired of either amazon or disney having their fingers up the ass of everything in existence anymore.

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funkyfritter
02/23/23 6:34:43 AM
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I don't think they can do much worse than the large corporate healthcare networks that already exist.

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Yellow
02/23/23 10:31:01 AM
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Yeah it's kind of sad but they can't possibly make it any worse.

I was so depressed these last couple months I would have hospitalized myself if it didn't cost $100k+. So I looked into getting antidepressants and I couldn't get an appointment sooner than 3 months (and then cancelled). I would literally buy them off the dark web at this point, I'm just laying in bed feeling sick to my stomach.

The US really doesn't care if you live or die.
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Jen0125
02/23/23 10:35:03 AM
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PMarth2002 posted...
I would prefer Amazon not run literally everything.

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Muscles
02/23/23 10:49:13 AM
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Bezos is trying so hard to own the whole world, fuck him and Amazon, I haven't used it in over a decade at this point and refuse to use it

The world is getting too globalized and that's a terrible thing

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Nichtcrawler-X
02/23/23 10:50:41 AM
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Does that mean they will have physical stores where they have employees that can give advice about medical products?

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Jen0125
02/23/23 10:51:34 AM
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Muscles posted...
Bezos is trying so hard to own the whole world, fuck him and Amazon, I haven't used it in over a decade at this point and refuse to use it

The world is getting too globalized and that's a terrible thing

Bezos isn't part of Amazon anymore.
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Muscles
02/23/23 10:56:58 AM
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Jen0125 posted...
Bezos isn't part of Amazon anymore.
He's just the founder and majority stake holder, that's not nothing. It's not like he sold off ownership and is 100% out

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Jen0125
02/23/23 12:15:09 PM
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Muscles posted...
He's just the founder and majority stake holder, that's not nothing. It's not like he sold off ownership and is 100% out

He's not making major decisions. Just update your rhetoric.
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Yellow
02/23/23 12:23:35 PM
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I mean at this point do we just wait for some kind of collapse?

Healthcare in the US is just monstrous and we're moving towards literally everything becoming Amazon faster than we are to updating it to a single payer model. Prices are rising, cost of living is rising, corporate profits are skyrocketing and politicians are getting worse. I mean eventually something's gotta give.
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Jen0125
02/23/23 12:28:53 PM
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Yellow posted...
I mean at this point do we just wait for some kind of collapse?

Basically. It can't go like this much longer without mass homelessness and hunger.
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Yellow
02/23/23 12:48:45 PM
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Jen0125 posted...
Basically. It can't go like this much longer without mass homelessness and hunger.
Half the country will blame corporations and the other half will blame us along with the other undesirables.
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Jen0125
02/23/23 1:04:14 PM
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Yellow posted...
Half the country will blame corporations and the other half will blame us along with the other undesirables.

Well yeah. Why aren't we collectively lifting our bootstraps????
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Miroku_of_Nite1
02/23/23 1:43:55 PM
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Jen0125 posted...
Basically. It can't go like this much longer without mass homelessness and hunger.

Oh it can, and it will.

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Lokarin
02/23/23 2:16:20 PM
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Is a good thing. Capitalism is only a problem when it denies product, providing product is always good

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Yellow
02/23/23 2:19:17 PM
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Lokarin posted...
Is a good thing. Capitalism is only a problem when it denies product, providing product is always good
The problem is that healthcare is a product, where supply = demand, and the demand for staying alive is everything the person owns and then some

It's not exactly something you can bargain

GameFAQs tou prevents me from sharing how I really feel about it tbh
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Lokarin
02/23/23 2:21:54 PM
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Yellow posted...


It's not exactly something you can bargain

Then it would be denying product - but ya, there is nuance to economics - it doesn't have to be a greedy shitshow

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Jen0125
02/23/23 2:24:09 PM
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Lokarin posted...
Then it would be denying product - but ya, there is nuance to economics - it doesn't have to be a greedy shitshow

Making something so expensive that regular people can't afford it isn't denying a product. If that person were to make more money they could have the product. But they don't and will never make that money. It's not accessible to them.
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wpot
02/23/23 2:28:49 PM
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funkyfritter posted...
I don't think they can do much worse than the large corporate healthcare networks that already exist.

but

PMarth2002 posted...
I would prefer Amazon not run literally everything.

They need a competitor.

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Lokarin
02/23/23 2:48:35 PM
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Jen0125 posted...
Making something so expensive that regular people can't afford it isn't denying a product. If that person were to make more money they could have the product. But they don't and will never make that money. It's not accessible to them.

yes it is denying a product; it's a concept known as positive freedoms.

Negative freedom: A person has the ability to do anything/everything... .... but because they have no money, they can do nothing.

Positive freedom: Same person is given the capability to do anything/everything, or at least not die from not having insulin

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Jen0125
02/23/23 2:56:41 PM
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Lokarin posted...
yes it is denying a product; it's a concept known as positive freedoms.

Negative freedom: A person has the ability to do anything/everything... .... but because they have no money, they can do nothing.

Positive freedom: Same person is given the capability to do anything/everything, or at least not die from not having insulin

It's not denying a product. It's just inaccessible to you particularly because you are too poor. Are you being denied a Tesla because you can't afford it? No. You could buy one using any number of options that probably aren't financially feasible or responsible.
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Lokarin
02/23/23 3:04:17 PM
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Jen0125 posted...
It's not denying a product. It's just inaccessible to you particularly because you are too poor. Are you being denied a Tesla because you can't afford it? No. You could buy one using any number of options that probably aren't financially feasible or responsible.

A person doesn't have the freedom of a tesla, but a person should have the freedom of healthcare

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Jen0125
02/23/23 3:12:23 PM
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Lokarin posted...
A person doesn't have the freedom of a tesla, but a person should have the freedom of healthcare

Should. But we don't in many countries. You're making rules based on a reality that doesn't exist.
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Lokarin
02/23/23 3:32:39 PM
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Here in the Canada I can get my prescription from literally ANY pharmacy, no restrictions, including Walmarts and many grocery stores... what's the problem with adding Amazon on top of that?

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Jen0125
02/23/23 3:41:26 PM
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Lokarin posted...
Here in the Canada I can get my prescription from literally ANY pharmacy, no restrictions, including Walmarts and many grocery stores... what's the problem with adding Amazon on top of that?

You're asking me a question that I didn't even have a segue to. I don't care if Amazon offers these things but I don't care for Amazon having their hands in every cookie jar we have.
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Zareth
02/23/23 7:19:54 PM
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PMarth2002 posted...
I would prefer Amazon not run literally everything.


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adjl
02/23/23 8:16:04 PM
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Lokarin posted...
there is nuance to economics - it doesn't have to be a greedy s***show

It doesn't have to be, but it is, and by its very nature those profiting most from being greedy shits have the power to make it an even greedier shitshow.

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dragon504
02/23/23 10:24:35 PM
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Conglomerates are as bad or worse than monopolies. These things need to be busted up into separate entities.

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