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    Consumer Confidential: Bezos bets $1 billion on the future of healthcare as Trump tells the same old lies

    by David Lazarus, Los Angeles Times Jul 03, 2018 4 minutes

    Two men stood out when it came to healthcare last week. One put a billion dollars on the line as part of a bold vision for the future of treatment and medicine.

    The other told the same old lies.

    The former was Jeff Bezos, whose Amazon shelled out big bucks for the online pharmacy PillPack. This ended the guessing game about Amazon's healthcare ambitions and sent a clear message to the medical marketplace that the company is a player.

    Geoffrey Joyce, a USC pharmaceutical economist, called the move "the beginning of the end" for the current way drugs pass through multiple hands

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