Milwaukee Bucks star power forward and former National Basketball Association's most valuable player Giannis Antetokounmpo is investing in telehealth company Antidote, according to an Aug. 11 report in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.
Antidote is an artificial intelligence-based virtual care telehealth company that seeks to provide care to individuals or families at a single price. Antidote offers a primary care package for $55 a month that includes 12 visits and a drug cost reduction program, according to the Sentinel.
Antidote says that Mr. Antetokounmpo has invested $1 million into the company. Mr. Antetokounmpo credits this support with his own experiences of not having healthcare as a Nigerian immigrant growing up in Greece.
"I didn't have healthcare until I was 18, until I got to the NBA and I was able to go to the doctor, talk to the doctor," Mr. Antetokounmpo said. "I'm not the expert in this, but I care about people. And I believe it's a human right to have access to doctors, to talk to somebody to tell them about your issues, to tell them about what you're going through mentally, about your struggle. It's a human right, so everybody should have that access."