So if you can’t afford traditional insurance which is 100% a scam then why is this a bad alternative?
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800XL@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Dont fucking use this. Let it lose money so it goes away. Amazon is awful enough and if this shit trend continues, Meta will get into healthcare too using posts, tracking cookies and purchases on the platform too.
the_q@lemmy.world 7 months ago
thefloweracidic@lemmy.world 7 months ago
This isn’t a good alternative either. From reading the article it looks like this service is meant to screen less serious issues, and if those less serious issues need an in person doctor visit, you’ll need insurance.
The deeper problem is that if our personal data is gold, our medical data is diamonds. It may not be tomorrow, or a decade from now, but I guarantee any sort of contact non-medical corporations make with our medical data will result in a darker dystopia.
Targeted ads will be more invasive. Insurance premiums can be increased for “unhealthy” purchases. Medical coverage can be denied based on economic decisions. The list can go on. We would pretty much get a more perverse profit driven medical system if companies like Amazon start wiggling their way into medicine. Also regulations won’t keep us safe, you can thank lobbying for that.
Melpomene@kbin.social 7 months ago
The service doesn't cover most healthcare so you're still stuck with One Medical's bills, which (if reviews on Trustpilot are correct) tend to be higher than traditional medical. They still bill to your insurance if you have it.
Sabata11792@kbin.social 7 months ago
"Well after reading your internet history, I diagnosed you with depression."
-This session was sponcered by Gold Rope patented pre tied nooses.800XL@lemmy.world 7 months ago
And your Amazon-sponsored telehealth video chat session will have ads pasted across it like some awful news channel screenshot.
Seriously tho, every-single webpage you visit tattles to a combo of Amazon, Meta, or Facebook. That means based on your medical history Amazon can just flat out choose not to show you items it deems unhealthy. It will use all of that to build a profile whose sole goal is to lump you into risk categories it will use as a reason to charge more money. Maybe not at first, but once the exercise of figuring out just what kind of data they have on you is complete and how they can leverage it, they will.
HubertManne@kbin.social 7 months ago
ugh. those are total garbage and break within a minute. Great for AEA though!
Outtatime@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Can you tell me why?
SulaymanF@lemmy.world 7 months ago
Healthcare is already heavily corporatized in the US, this is just another worsening step.
Outtatime@sh.itjust.works 7 months ago
Have you used this service? Can you tell me if it’s better or worse than other medical services available?
SulaymanF@lemmy.world 7 months ago
I haven’t yet.
treefrog@lemm.ee 7 months ago
A poster above has.
I don’t trust Amazon to shop with.
I expect it’s only a matter of time before there’s a huge HIPAA violation when we find out they’re using health info to sell us shit.
800XL@lemmy.world 7 months ago
There are a myriad of reasons why this is bad, and feel free to ask for explanation of any. This is just off the top of my head.
- A single large monopolistic corporation should not have access to your purchasing and medical history
- A single breach can now mean purchasing history and medical history
- Huge potential for ads targeted for a person showing up on a device that isn’t strictly theirs (like a family computer) that by doing so endangers their well-being.
- Reselling of “anonymous” medical info (it’ll happen) that is super easy to tie back to previously purchased Amazon info.
- Third-parties who purchase info not having as hardened security as Amazon leaving data out in the open
- AI/algoithmic price-gouging on items based on medical data
- Even more god damned lobbying for anti-patient/anti-consumer based changes to health care law with the financial power of Amazon behind it
- This sets the bar for other Big Tech and what they also have to do to stay competitive
- Contacting Amazon customer service for errant prescription/care charges
Do you really want Jeff Bezos and an Amazon Board of Directors death panel deciding what care you receive?
PandaPikachu@lemmy.world 7 months ago
AI doctors are probably going to be a thing whether we want them or not, one way or another in the near future. I don’t think it’ll be going away. health.google/health-research/
Zikeji@programming.dev 7 months ago
In my opinion, I think that properly done AI assisted doctors are a good thing. Doctors have to keep track of so much stuff that is constantly changing, just to make a diagnosis. AI guidance can and will help.
Keyword being “properly” which is probably not going to be the case.
bobs_monkey@lemm.ee 7 months ago
So basically this