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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: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 09 2018, @11:48PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 09 2018, @11:48PM (#650306)

    It's not allowed to bike or walk on many highways in the US (yes even on the shoulder). So yeah, I can walk and get some places, but to leave the state or even travel to another town in my county, I absolutely have to have a car or I'm breaking the law, as well as rising life and limb trying to cross 6 70mph lanes. Living without a vehicle means being corralled and having very few options for anything.