Health Populi January 24, 2023
Two announcements this week add important initiatives to patients’ growing choices that speak to their consumer-sides’ sense of value and personal healthcare cost-containment:
- Amazon launched RxPass, a generic medicines subscription service; and,
- Dollar General promoted its mobile health service powered by DocGo on demand for health visits, “right outside the store.”
These two programs come from outside of the legacy health care system of so-called incumbents — hospitals, health systems, health insurance — leveraging two brand-names beloved to many consumers for convenience, price transparency, and sheer cost.
First, check out Amazon Pharmacy’s RxPass.
Amazon announced the program in this press release today.
Top-line, the announcement said that,
“In addition to all the savings, convenience, and entertainment they already...
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