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Topic	Amazon set to purchase PillPack, venturing into retail pharmacy
DezDroppedFreak 06/29/18 11:45:49 AM #26:	FLUFFYGERM posted... DezDroppedFreak posted... Can you imagine if amazon made private prescription insurance irrelevant. Some meds can be thousands of dollars to purchase from wholesalers, which is why I mentioned relationships for the current climate. Its a long process to get to what youre talking about We don't need to imagine, I think we'll see it happen in under a decade. You don't need to purchase anything from a wholesaler if you can just spin up your own production and supply chain. Amazon already has a monstrously effective supply chain that just gets better each year. If they acquire and develop their own pharmaceutical capabilities there's no reason why they can't mass-produce medicine and sell it for a fraction of what others are selling it for. The tl;dr is that I'm probably going to purchase some Amazon stock even though I really should've gotten some a few years ago >_> The only issue with that would be some common meds (some newer diabetes meds come to mind as well as FXA inhibitors) are still only really available from their respective name-brand manufacturers until their exclusivity patents run out. Not everything is available generic and cant just be manufactured, and that muddies the waters a bit for the time being. Ill be interested to see if they get into R&D --- DezCaughtIt AKA freakofnature30 Brockhampton makes me *saturate* <cite>DezDroppedFreak posted [p:904185745] in Amazon set... [t:76761591]...</cite> <quote><cite>FLUFFYGERM posted...</cite> <quote><cite>DezDroppedFreak posted...</cite> <quote>Can you imagine if amazon made private prescription insurance irrelevant. Some meds can be thousands of dollars to purchase from wholesalers, which is why I mentioned relationships for the current climate. Its a long process to get to what youre talking about</quote> We don't need to imagine, I think we'll see it happen in under a decade. You don't need to purchase anything from a wholesaler if you can just spin up your own production and supply chain. Amazon already has a monstrously effective supply chain that just gets better each year. If they acquire and develop their own pharmaceutical capabilities there's no reason why they can't mass-produce medicine and sell it for a fraction of what others are selling it for. The tl;dr is that I'm probably going to purchase some Amazon stock even though I really should've gotten some a few years ago >_></quote> The only issue with that would be some common meds (some newer diabetes meds come to mind as well as FXA inhibitors) are still only really available from their respective name-brand manufacturers until their exclusivity patents run out. Not everything is available generic and cant just be manufactured, and that muddies the waters a bit for the time being. Ill be interested to see if they get into R&D --- DezCaughtIt AKA freakofnature30 Brockhampton makes me saturate</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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