Dear Amazon: Please Get Into The Pharmacy Business#4K2

Dear Amazon: Please Get Into The Pharmacy Business Wouldnt it be great if you could just Amazon Prime your asthma inhaler, birth control, or any other of the roughly 4 billion prescriptions that Americans fill every year? If youve followed Amazon news over the last couple years, it has certainly seemed like the company has been planning a move into the pharmacy business. So why isnt there an Rx tab on Amazon yet? Given the obscene prices, bad service, and customer-hostile nature of the health care business, Amazon would be a welcome competitor. Amazon has already acquired more than a dozen pharmaceutical distribution licenses, which are not hard to get. If youre a US pharmacy and you want to sell your products to the 90% of Americans who have insurance, you must do business with the PBMs. Its difficult to imagine that the unstoppable force that is the startup world wont eventually crash into the most immovable objects in the health care business.