How Amazon Might Defeat Teladoc Health

Teladoc Health (NYSE: TDOC) is top dog and first mover in providing virtual healthcare to people, insured or not. Right now, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) is not competing directly with Teladoc, but that might change. Amazon now insures all its own employees, and it is offering its health insurance solution to enterprise customers. Amazon may want to contract with Teladoc to provide virtual healthcare to its insured clients. Or Amazon might want to build out its own virtual healthcare system. Or it may want to acquire a virtual healthcare player and build on that.

Is it possible that Amazon might start competing directly with Teladoc? If the company builds out a virtual healthcare solution, what will that look like? How much of our healthcare will move to the internet? In this video from Motley Fool Live, recorded on May 14, Corinne Cardina, bureau chief of healthcare and cannabis at Fool.com, and Motley Fool writer Taylor Carmichael discuss some limits of virtual healthcare, and the competitive threat of Amazon to Teladoc Health.

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