What Amazon Is Really Trying to Do by Selling Ludicrously Cheap Prescription Drugs

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What Amazon Is Really Trying to Do by Selling Ludicrously Cheap Prescription Drugs
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Amazon’s new RxPass isn’t as revolutionary as it seems.

the optimal way to counter inflated drug costs. But the savings aren’t quite as dramatic as some framings of his endeavor have made it seem. Still his project, along with Amazon’s, offers an important reminder: generic drug prices are far from standard across the board, and so weThey offer a second lesson as well: Insurance is not always as helpful as many of us assume it is. Both Amazon and Cuban are offering these excellent prices without insurance.

Occasionally, as Van Nuys at USC has found, that means that you’d pay more. Yes, more! The good news for uninsured and underinsured people: if a generic is available, with careful sourcing, you may be able to avoid any cost

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