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The naming is horrible, because 'Amazon Care' is an oxymoron (sorry, couldn't help it). This is crap. It's basically streamlined McMedicine. Any ailment which

The naming is horrible, because 'Amazon Care' is an oxymoron (sorry, couldn't help it). This is crap. It's basically streamlined McMedicine. Any ailment which steps out of the ordinary will be deferred or ignored. This is vaporware. Its goal is to save Bezos money for employee health insurance and using it's gimmicks to advertise it as a 'benefit' > Health care represents a $3.5 trillion sector for Amazon This is the problem right here. As long as medical care is a business, it's gonna be run like a business and trust me, you don't want Amazon running anything medical for you.

patch_cable 7y ago
> Any ailment which steps out of the ordinary will be deferred or ignored. Why would that be more true for this service than any other provider?
- Aeolun 7y ago
  It may be true for every other provider, but does that mean it isn’t still a problem?
  - jhall1468 7y ago
    I'd assume because this was an attack specifically on Amazon Care when that is an industry-wide problem. It's the equivalent to ranting about how bad a tv show was because it has commercials.
healthscam 7y ago
What's your solution non-profits, how well are those working for you now? If anything the utter bureaucracy and malfeasance under guise of charity has destroyed countless American lives with bizarre practices such as surprise billing, preferential rates. If anything there is a need for vertical integration in healthcare, to save it from disaster that is pharma/insurance/hospitals. Healthcare is as toxic as Taxi industry pre Uber and if it takes Amazon or Apple similar what Uber/Lyft did to destroy the current state so be it. it will still be a net positive.
- wind0w 7y ago
  Healthcare should be publicly run. It should not be a business. It is toxic because it is a business.
- skyyler 7y ago
  How would vertical integration benefit the patient? Why should healthcare be provided by your employer, and not your government?
- decebalus1 7y ago
  Proud to see someone making an account to respond to my comment. My solution is government-run single payer health insurance, separated from employers. It doesn't need 'disruption' or 'innovation' or any other Silicon Valley band-aid. It just needs to drop the cancerous insurers from the market completely and separate profits from healthcare.
- nullandvoid 7y ago
  I find this opinion that healthcare should be for-profit mind blowing. The whole non-profit approach is working great for us in the UK ( from a citizen perspective at least )
aurizon 7y ago
I do not agree with decebalus1. Many ilnesses start small, and people shrug them off and do not seek a doctor. I expect this will interview each person, get their temperature, blood pressre and others- via labs. This is a good anonymous machine interview process by an AI following a tree
- decebalus1 7y ago
  > This is a good anonymous machine interview process by an AI following a tree Needs a bit more blockchain and webscale. I mean, it's an implementation detail but I'd put the individual test results on some Kafka topics and then have a worker to commit these to a blockchain for durability. Solving the real problems here..

patch_cable 7y ago

> Any ailment which steps out of the ordinary will be deferred or ignored. Why would that be more true for this service than any other provider?

Aeolun 7y ago
It may be true for every other provider, but does that mean it isn’t still a problem?
- jhall1468 7y ago
  I'd assume because this was an attack specifically on Amazon Care when that is an industry-wide problem. It's the equivalent to ranting about how bad a tv show was because it has commercials.

healthscam 7y ago

What's your solution non-profits, how well are those working for you now? If anything the utter bureaucracy and malfeasance under guise of charity has destroyed countless American lives with bizarre practices such as surprise billing, preferential rates. If anything there is a need for vertical integration in healthcare, to save it from disaster that is pharma/insurance/hospitals. Healthcare is as toxic as Taxi industry pre Uber and if it takes Amazon or Apple similar what Uber/Lyft did to destroy the current state so be it. it will still be a net positive.

wind0w 7y ago
Healthcare should be publicly run. It should not be a business. It is toxic because it is a business.
skyyler 7y ago
How would vertical integration benefit the patient? Why should healthcare be provided by your employer, and not your government?
decebalus1 7y ago
Proud to see someone making an account to respond to my comment. My solution is government-run single payer health insurance, separated from employers. It doesn't need 'disruption' or 'innovation' or any other Silicon Valley band-aid. It just needs to drop the cancerous insurers from the market completely and separate profits from healthcare.
nullandvoid 7y ago
I find this opinion that healthcare should be for-profit mind blowing. The whole non-profit approach is working great for us in the UK ( from a citizen perspective at least )

aurizon 7y ago

I do not agree with decebalus1. Many ilnesses start small, and people shrug them off and do not seek a doctor. I expect this will interview each person, get their temperature, blood pressre and others- via labs. This is a good anonymous machine interview process by an AI following a tree

decebalus1 7y ago
> This is a good anonymous machine interview process by an AI following a tree Needs a bit more blockchain and webscale. I mean, it's an implementation detail but I'd put the individual test results on some Kafka topics and then have a worker to commit these to a blockchain for durability. Solving the real problems here..