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Amazon buys US healthcare chain One Medical for $3.9bn
The Register ^ | 21 July 2022 | Katyanna Quach

Posted on 07/22/2022 10:40:25 AM PDT by ShadowAce

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1 posted on 07/22/2022 10:40:25 AM PDT by ShadowAce
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Globalist and elitist Bezos knows what is too come and he is looking to profit off it. Bet. Same for Gates, etc., etc.

Storm is coming brothers and sisters.


2 posted on 07/22/2022 10:44:05 AM PDT by cranked
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Smart move. Guaranteed demand and profit and nice synergies.


3 posted on 07/22/2022 10:49:12 AM PDT by bigbob (z)
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Big tech keeps getting more and more powerful with huge Cash inflows


4 posted on 07/22/2022 10:56:04 AM PDT by janetjanet998
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“Booking an appointment, waiting weeks or even months to be seen, taking time off work, driving to a clinic, finding a parking spot, waiting in the waiting room then the exam room for what is too often a rushed few minutes with a doctor, then making another trip to a pharmacy – we see lots of opportunity to both improve the quality of the experience and give people back valuable time in their days.”

In the past year, we lost a SIL, who was unable to see her doctor and even to get routine tests. She ended up with acute adult onset of leukemia and died in a hospice 60 days after finally getting the standard lab tests.

We almost lost a brother due to Covid B$ interfering with a stroke. Fortunately his wife’s sister is a good RN and got in the face of the mistreatment of a stroke and no real Covid. He came home from the hospital and got back into care with his primary IM. Now he needs a new knee.

My wife needed a new hip and finally after 6+ months of painful delay, she got her new hip is doing well 4+ months post implant.

One woman on my wife’s prayer chain, had a needed cardiac operation cancelled due to her doctor getting Covid. She was within 30 minutes from the hospital when she got the message that her surgery was cancelled. She is back on line for Aug/Sep..

A year ago, my 2nd toe on my right foot was overlapping my big toe. Due to covid B$, my podiatrist was not able to schedule my toe removal. So he lopped it off in the office, and my wife drove me home minutes later. I’m doing fine now.

My wife had cataract surgery and last summer, she was getting floaters in both eyes. Again due to Covid B$, they couldn’t schedule her for a hospital visit. Her eye doc used a laser on both eyes in the clinic office. I got her to our car and drove her home after getting some antibiotic drops from the clinic pharmacy. In a few days she had 20/20 vision and still had problems with her hips. She finally got hip surgery the first week in March of this year.


5 posted on 07/22/2022 11:11:27 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Anyone, who can make you believe in absurdities, can make you commit atrocoveities.!" ~ (Voltaire)!!)
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So I get free visits with prime?


6 posted on 07/22/2022 11:26:29 AM PDT by cableguymn
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Some important dude at Amazon put out a canned statement, that heathcare is “... high on the list of experiences that need reinvention.”
You just have to laff, and laff, and laff.
I think most people who have had to deal with medical billing departments just finally say, “Whatever.”
Then they pay the amount indicated. Or maybe they don’t.
On balance I think lots of amounts get paid by patients which are not legally due.
These thoughts are based on personal experiences going back to the 1980s.
And as bad as it is for as long as it has been this bad, most of the big players seem to be fine with the situation.
Maybe it works the way they want it.


7 posted on 07/22/2022 11:30:43 AM PDT by Honest Nigerian
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Nice, If your body rejects the transplant, drop it off at Kohl’s and get a refund.


8 posted on 07/22/2022 11:41:38 AM PDT by bleach (If I agreed with you, we would both be wrong.)
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To: cranked

Yes, this is messed up.


9 posted on 07/22/2022 11:43:56 AM PDT by Bulwyf
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woder if the amazambulances will be the same battleship gray color as their other delivery trucks...


10 posted on 07/22/2022 11:47:42 AM PDT by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value and makes people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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The United States of Amazon.


11 posted on 07/22/2022 11:51:59 AM PDT by Pirate Ragnar (Hope coming from Florida)
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I feel so reassured by this AMZ exec telling me all of this.

NOT.


12 posted on 07/22/2022 11:55:15 AM PDT by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theorybe” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12)
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This should be illegal under antitrust laws. The globalist wish to control the entire system. Then they can do things like globally refuse to treat you if you don’t have shot or if you do or say something they don’t like. In the end the entire system will owned by only a few.


13 posted on 07/22/2022 11:56:42 AM PDT by Revel
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To: cranked

“technology powered”

AI chip
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14 posted on 07/22/2022 12:00:30 PM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18)
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☑️

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15 posted on 07/22/2022 12:01:45 PM PDT by Varsity Flight ( "War by the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18)
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Years ago, when we were living in Japan, my wife twisted her ankle. I helped her to a local orthopedic clinic in our neighborhood, and waited less than 10 minutes to see the doc.

After about a 15 minute exam, they fitted her for a crutch and put on a cast. They asked us to wait while they looked at our insurance information and collected roughly a $4 co-pay. As we were getting ready to leave, a lady from a pharmacy about a block away arrived on a bicycle, gave her some medication and collected a 300 yen co-pay on the insurance information that the clinic phoned in. I must say that I was impressed!

16 posted on 07/22/2022 12:03:29 PM PDT by Vigilanteman (The politicized state destroys aspects of civil society, human kindness and private charity.)
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THIS will Not end well.


17 posted on 07/22/2022 12:19:34 PM PDT by S.O.S121.500 (Had ENOUGH Yet ? ........................ Enforce the Bill of Rights .........It is the LAW. )
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I am waiting 8 weeks to see my primary care doctor for high blood pressure. I have resorted to taking my cat’s heart medication.


18 posted on 07/22/2022 12:27:40 PM PDT by EBH (Let God Sort Them Out. 1776-2021 May God Save Us.)
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I have resorted to taking my cat’s heart medication.

Hopefully, that'll get the old ticker purring right along.

19 posted on 07/22/2022 12:49:09 PM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn't become your biography, what good is it?)
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“Amazon Health”

Guess when they start doing abortions, I can’t use them anymore.


20 posted on 07/22/2022 12:54:53 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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