And it will only get worse…
Amazon entered the field by buying One Medical and advertising remote visits included at no extra cost for 9$ a month. I just got the bill for my first remote visit, 305$ to establish care. I figured okay, I just did the wrong kind of remote visit, so I tried to get help with a sinus infection I haven’t been able to shake, they straight up won’t do the included visit, they want me to do another multiple hundred dollar video call again. When you sign up they say video visits are free with no asterisk or limits given.
I make too little money to qualify for assistance, so I have basically been told by my country that I am an acceptable loss in the name of profits.
I’m scared, any doctor here can just refuse to treat me because they don’t think I’ll pay, or even better, in my home state they can deny me healthcare just because I’m on HRT.
We just got some bad news about my partners health, and potentially mine, so it’s not a “maybe this won’t impact me” kind of thing. I need medical help and treatment now, not in thirty years when we decide the Amazon death panels were a terrible exploitative idea…
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The fact you confused it for insurance is telling enough of what kind of legal trouble Amazon will have gotten themselves into.
It’s not insurance, it’s a telehealth platform, you’re still expected to pay for other insurance for them to bill who then bills you.
Maybe I should start billing people to explain how people get billed through other billing networks, creating a never ending chain of middlemen and thieves sneaking value added fees in so many levels under you you can’t avoid them…
I’ve DM’d you your billing invoice, thanks for being
my captive audiencea loyal customer
What other wealthy nation doesn’t have socialized healthcare? I hope they didn’t spend too much researching this…
A national health system is so hard that only 32 of the top 33 developed nations have figured out how to do it.
Of course, I’m not convinced that the US truly counts as a developed nation anymore. Being a developed nation is a moving target which requires self investment to continue to build and maintain your infrastructure, society, and skill base to keep up with. The US stopped seriously investing right around President Regan’s time and we have been coasting ever since. We’re the world’s richest sorta developed nation.
