Corporate Abuser Amazon Takes Over Health Clinics & Trafficking Victims Gain A Victory Against VISA

Amazon is getting into the healthcare business by purchasing a group of medical clinics. Mike Papantonio & Farron Cousins discuss more. Also, there were lots of positive developments involving human trafficking litigation this week. Mike Papantonio is joined by attorney Carissa Phelps to explain what’s happening.

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Amazon is getting into the healthcare business by purchasing a group of medical clinics. Whoa, this is, soon as I saw this, I said, wow, this is gonna go bad fast. Give me your take.

You know, it, it is funny mentioning the media. The Wall Street Journal is hyping this up like, oh my God, what a great day for healthcare.

I saw that.

Because Amazon, one of the worst corporate abusers in the country, is gonna be taking over what, 180 medical clinics across the country.

Yeah.

I mean, something has to be done, is my initial reaction. You can't just allow this corporate behemoth to, to sell you everything from toilet paper to prescription drugs, to, you know, web services for the United States military. This is nuts that we're just letting Amazon take everything over. Oh and by the way, he also owns the Washington Post.

Yeah. Well, this virtue signaling that Amazon's doing is really repulsive. Their virtue signaling is, well, we wanna reinvent medical care because the elderly aren't getting their medical care they need. And our employees aren't getting the medical care they need. You think? Because you're not providing it. But at any rate, they, really what they want to do, it's all about tying in to that $4 trillion healthcare, that's what's spent in healthcare every year, four, $4 trillion. That's what it's all about. So as you said, 180 medical offices, 25 US markets gonna be affected by it, for 8,000 companies. They're going to be looking to bring in 8,000 companies into their umbrella, to where they say, we'll take care of your employees the same way we take care of our employees.

Yeah. And, and, and what's crazy is the relatively low purchase price of this, $3 billion. I mean, for a company that's worth hundreds of billions.

Mm-hmm.

You're paying 3 billion.

Mm-hmm.

To tap into the $4 trillion market. It's gonna be a wonderful return on investment.

Yeah.

For Amazon shareholders. But for everybody else, it's gonna degrade the quality of healthcare and it's gonna put more people, most likely getting prescriptions they don't need. So Amazon who apparently three years ago got into the prescription drug market.

Right. I was just gonna say.

Can sell them their drugs right to their door in an hour.

Yeah. This, this is nothing but a train wreck ready to happen.

There were lots of positive developments involving human trafficking litigation this week and joining me to talk about this is Carissa Phelps. Carissa, you might not remember, but the first time you and I met and we started talking about human trafficking, my theory was you have to go to where the money is.

Mm-hmm.

I said, you gotta go to the hotels. You gotta go to Wall Street and you have to go to the credit cards that make all this happen. Big victory and you have been working this case for, you know, years now. And I, what I love about it is every now and then the good guys win. That's the case here, isn't it?

Yes, it is. Yeah.

Tell us a little bit about what happened.

Well, a judge's ruling said, Visa, you're gonna stay in. You're gonna be accountable for your actions to a victim. And that's Serena Fleites, I hope I'm saying her name correctly.

Yeah.

But she's, she's not our client particularly, but we're behind this case. We really support it. We have a, you know, common defendant and we're, we're really excited that the judge is seeing it too. That these businesses don't exist alone.

Right.

They need support.

Right. In other words, porn, the, the, the, the, Mind, whether it's MindGeek, which is one of the biggest porn distributors in the world, whether this is the girl do porn, okay. That's the site. And they found out.