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You're assuming that One Medical's interests are different than Amazon's. You're probably wrong. One Medical is there to make money. Amazon will make One Medic
by manv1 4y ago
You're assuming that One Medical's interests are different than Amazon's. You're probably wrong.
One Medical is there to make money. Amazon will make One Medical more efficient at making money, even if that means forcing you to be healthier.
How?
One nagging problem with healthcare is doctors believe that medicine isn't a cookie cutter problem when in fact it is. For the vast majority of conditions there are standard treatments that work. If that wasn't the case modern medicine wouldn't exist.
Every doctor can whip out some corner case and say "but what about this." Sure, that's great. But for condition A the standard treatments usually work. The trick is to know when the standard treatments aren't working and what to do.
Amazon, or any healthcare company with enough data, can look at the data and see what treatments actually work and what treatments don't. It's not a hard problem, really, but traditional health systems don't care, and to be frank, academic researchers are basically too lacking in imagination to understand how to do it or why it should be done.
Amazon at the very least will try to apply quantitative methods to the problem.
- polygamous_bat 4y agoYou know what's one case of a quantitative solution to a medical problem? Take a physically healthy but severely mentally ill person, and harvest their organs to transplant. It's surely gonna bring in profit and increase our GDP! However morally abhorrent this practice may be, I do not trust Amazon to NOT do this if there aren't any laws against it, which is why I am against this acquisition. I know some people may find it debatable, but I believe healthcare should be run with a Kantian framework where every life is priceless rather than a utilitarian one.