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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: 3, Interesting) by archfeld on Friday March 09 2018, @05:05AM
Giving/funding healthcare to the poor and needy is most certainly cheaper than waiting for them to show up in an emergency room with no healthcare and being treated on the public dole. A national healthcare system in the US would save billions, but after the BigPharma and Insurance companies get done frankensteining any sort of bill or law what we get/got was so pork filled and flawed it barely benefitted anyone other than those 2 industries.
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