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posted by martyb on Thursday March 08 2018, @12:47PM   Printer-friendly
from the actually...599-IS-prime dept.

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.


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  • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Friday March 09 2018, @02:36PM

    by Phoenix666 (552) on Friday March 09 2018, @02:36PM (#649962) Journal

    I did cycle everywhere. I was in Saga Prefecture on Kyushu. It was quite rural. There was no subway. There was a light rail spur that connected Nagasaki to Fukuoka, but didn't fan out into the prefecture. Buses were infrequent.

    There is even less room for bikes in Japan than there is in the United States, yet I biked everywhere. Most roads don't even have shoulders you can ride on, much less bike paths. Very often there is an abrupt edge to the road and a 2-3 foot drop into a rice paddy. Riding at night can therefore be quite tricky, with no street lights or nearby homes to light your way, only ambient light on the horizon, starlight, or a bike light.

    In short, there's no real excuse for Americans to not bike more. They just don't want to, or they've been brainwashed by generations of Detroit's advertising into thinking cycling is incredibly impossible or dangerous. If you throw in aftermarket e-bike kits that are common now, there's even less excuse.

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