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Amazon Prime... For Medicaid Recipients

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

takyon writes:

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: -1, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 08 2018, @03:57PM (3 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday March 08 2018, @03:57PM (#649521)

    Every soylentil is an old rich retired boomer. Exactly zero people here are on medicaid.

    Irrelevant story is irrelevant.

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  • (Score: 2) by kazzie on Thursday March 08 2018, @04:02PM

    by kazzie (5309) Subscriber Badge on Thursday March 08 2018, @04:02PM (#649523)

    Especially those of us that don't live in the USA!

  • (Score: 1) by redneckmother on Thursday March 08 2018, @04:38PM

    by redneckmother (3597) on Thursday March 08 2018, @04:38PM (#649538)

    Guess again.

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  • (Score: 3, Funny) by JoeMerchant on Thursday March 08 2018, @05:50PM

    by JoeMerchant (3937) on Thursday March 08 2018, @05:50PM (#649584)

    My mother in law is about 60 days away from qualifying for Medicaid, and we just sent a $300 "care package" to her via Amazon. Still won't be signing her up for Prime, tho.

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