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Amazon launches a low-cost version of Prime for Medicaid recipients
Amazon announced this morning it will offer a low-cost version of its Prime membership program to qualifying recipients of Medicaid. The program will bring the cost of Prime down from the usual $10.99 per month to about half that, at $5.99 per month, while still offering the full range of Prime perks, including free, two-day shipping on millions of products, Prime Video, Prime Music, Prime Photos, Prime Reading, Prime Now, Audible Channels, and more.
The new program is an expansion on Amazon's discounted Prime service for customers on government assistance, launched in June 2017. For the same price of $5.99 per month, Amazon offers Prime memberships to any U.S. customer with a valid EBT card – the card that's used to disburse funds for assistance programs like Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), and Women, Infants, and Children Nutrition Program (WIC).
It could be a way to get users with certain health care requirements on board before Amazon launches its own health insurance company.
Also at USA Today.
(Score: 2) by Bobs on Thursday March 08 2018, @07:16PM (1 child)
Of course you can vote, and run for office, and publicize problems, etc to motivate elected officials to change.
Versus the influence over a local monopoly or oligopoly, who owe their primary allegiance to maximizing a profit for their shareholders/owners, not you.
Elections do make a difference: Just ask the people trying to get an abortion, living in Quatar or Iraq, or the people in the US working on selling and installing solar, or trying to build things with aluminum or steel.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 08 2018, @07:27PM
That's why it's "theft".
Elections resulted in 100-year-old beer pubs being declared illegal and put out of business by men-with-guns.
Are you really going to argue there's no difference between that method of organizing society and capitalism? It's really all just the same voluntary participation?
Government is all about removing property rights against the will of the person who gathered those rights from his community; that's called theft.