Obtain drugs directly on the Internet and in unlimited quantities?
This is what Amazon offers, through a new subscription, launched on Tuesday.
For five dollars a month, the site allows you to purchase generic prescription drugs at no additional cost.
An offer intended for its Prime customers, according to a press release.
The service, dubbed RxPass, offers a series of generic medications "that treat more than 80 common ailments," Amazon said.
The giant estimates that more than 150 million Americans occasionally or regularly take one or more of them.
Amazon launched a $5 monthly subscription plan for US Prime members, as the e-commerce giant pushes deeper into healthcare.
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No mutual insurance intervention
RxPass does not require the intervention of a health insurer, unlike the ordinary system in which the cost of drugs is covered, in whole or in part, by mutual insurance or public Medicare and Medicaid coverage.
The initiative testifies to Amazon's desire to continue to develop its health offer, whether in terms of drugs or care.
The group notably announced, at the end of July, the acquisition of the private care network One Medical, for 3.9 billion dollars.
Other similar services
The Seattle giant is also expanding the services offered by the Prime subscription.
The latter already offers, in addition to free delivery of orders on the Amazon site, a large catalog of films, series and musical titles.
The price of the RxPass subscription will be added to that already paid for Prime.
RxPass is one of the most advanced formulas on the market for low-cost drugs, with the drug list service of the retail group Walmart.
This provides one month's treatment for a given generic drug for $4.
In October, the start-up Renee launched an offer which makes it possible to obtain, at no additional cost, drugs from some 1,000 references for a subscription at the price of 25 dollars.
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