It doesn’t exist here with us yet, but in the United States people can now also subscribe to medication. RxPass, that’s the name of Amazon’s new generic drug subscription. Amazon Prime customers can subscribe for $5 per month. Not all types of medication are available, only about 80 medications are covered by the subscription. Addictive and/or narcotic medication cannot be ordered.
“It is a kind of insurance on your expenditure of certain substances. Specifically, it is about prescribed medication, mainly for chronic conditions. Then it concerns, for example, antacids or blood pressure lowering drugs. By definition, things that require a fixed budget from someone who prescribes it. gets,” says Walter Van Dyck, senior lecturer in Technology and Innovation Management at Vlerick Business School, in “The world today” on Radio 1.