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  Amazon Clinic will be consolidated and rebranded to Amazon One Medical’s Pay-per-visit telehealth service, the company announced this morning. Specifically, this effort marks the company’s desire to focus on straightforward pricing and transparency across its clinical service lines. The cost structure is simple for the pay-per-visit service: messaging visits will cost $29, and video visits will cost $49, per the press release. At less than $50 per visit, this is one of the most competitive telehealth services on the market currently. Amazon Clinic was introduced nearly a year and a half ago for customers to have quick and easy access to healthcare services. Simultaneously, the company also rapidly ramped up One Medical , the primary care service which provides customers with telehealth or in-person visits. Now, Amazon seems to be slowly consolidating its various offerings to provide customers with a streamlined platform to receive on-demand clinical care under the flagship One M...

Interesting research published by the British Medical Journal in 2011 chronicles how, in 2003, the Tony Blair government in the UK invited all food companies, secretly, and informed them of the burden of hypertension cases on the National Health Service. The government’s ask was to reduce sodium content by 10 per cent every year for three years. It was an inclusive, well-informed policy directive that didn’t appear out of thin air, but was backed by data and research. After many years, once its impact had taken effect, the study quoted above was published to document this.Clearly, almost eight decades after leaving the subcontinent, the British have evolved, backing policy measures with authentic data to make informed decisions without disadvantaging any specific stakeholder. But we have not. Take the matter of health tax; there are numerous global examples of health taxes on a myriad of items consumed by the public to save on healthcare costs. Some countries impose duties on beverages...