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posted by martyb on Sunday July 01 2018, @11:21PM   Printer-friendly
from the resistance-is-futile dept.

By buying an online pharmacy allowed to deliver in all US states for a billion dollars, Amazon entered a new market and caused incumbents' stocks to plummet. The stock valuations of the traditional players lost 12.8 billion dollars just from the announcement.

Will Amazon help Americans afford their medications? How does it factor in with their announcing a combined healthcare provider with JPMorgan and Berkshire Hathaway, and will it scale to the rest of us from there?


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  • (Score: 2) by DannyB on Monday July 02 2018, @04:05PM

    by DannyB (5839) Subscriber Badge on Monday July 02 2018, @04:05PM (#701428) Journal

    Will Amazon help Americans afford their medications?

    If Amazon is unable to raise pill prices by at least 5000 percent, then they will fail compared to other big pharma.

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