This is pretty big news for the god forsaken healthcare industry, a vacuous and evil industry who thinks they can get away with charging normies $1700 per month for family health insurance. They should, quite seriously, fuck their own faces.
Amazon, Berkshire, and JP Morgan are uniting to form their own healthcare companies, for their employees — which sets a wonderful precedent away from the legacy providers who’ve been fucking stealing from Americans for decades.
CNBC:
Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase on Tuesday announced plans to partner on ways to cut health-care costs and improve services for their U.S. employees. The announcement slammed the shares of multiple companies in the health-care sector.
Together, the three companies employ more than 1.1 million workers.
The three massive companies will launch an independent outfit initially targeting technology solutions, with the intention to be an umbrella firm that would be “free from profit-making incentives.”
Details of the new company were sketchy, with principles of each firm noting that the way it will work remains to be seen. They’re hoping that the sheer size of each firm will help bring the necessary scale and resources to tackle the issue.
“The ballooning costs of healthcare act as a hungry tapeworm on the American economy,” Berkshire CEO Warren Buffett said in a statement. “Our group does not come to this problem with answers. But we also do not accept it as inevitable. Rather, we share the belief that putting our collective resources behind the country’s best talent can, in time, check the rise in health costs while concurrently enhancing patient satisfaction and outcomes.”
Three top executives, one from each company, will take the lead on the project: Investment officer Todd Combs at Berkshire, Marvelle Sullivan Berchtold at JPMorgan, and Beth Galetti, a senior vice president at Amazon.
The new company’s goal at first will be to target technology solutions to simplify the health-care system.
“I think it is good news,” Allergan CEO Brent Saunders told CNBC. “The healthcare delivery system is antiquated and in dire need of positive disruption. My hope is these three companies light the spark!”
Adam Fein, president of Pembroke Consulting, said it’s “long past time” for employers like these three to force innovation into the health-care system.
“For better or worse, there are warped incentives baked into every aspect of the U.S. healthcare system, from medical innovation to care delivery to insurance and benefit management,” Fein told CNBC. “Rather than merely bashing the current system, I hope this new organization can help patients and their physicians make more informed and more cost-effective decisions. Technology will be necessary but not sufficient to make positive changes.”
Analysts echoed the sentiment that the health-care system is outdated and ripe for disruption, paving the way for the new endeavor. However, they cautioned it could take time.
“If this winds up being the low cost provider to make insurance more affordable at employer level, could wind up being a real disruptive competitor to an industry that has not seen any new players in years/decades,” Jefferies analyst Jared Holz told CNBC. “Not going to call this black swan event yet because there are few details and would be making too many assumptions but it has potential to be.”
Leerink Partners’ Ana Gupte said the comments suggest the leaders view the endeavor as one that’s “complex, challenging and thorny and that will take time to bear fruit.”
Shares of each company were little changed in premarket trading.
I applaud this effort and hope other corporations follow suit.
Aetna (AET) is down 3.0% in pre-market trading; UnitedHealth (UNH) is down 6.8%; Cigna (CI) is down 5.3%; Anthem (ANTM) is down 7.0%; Humana (HUM) is down 4.9%; CVS Health (CVS) is down 5.8%; Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA) is down 3.7%; Merck (MRK) is down 1.0%; and Pfizer (PFE) is down 1.6%.
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Good. Americans overpay to the tune of 1 trillion dollars, 5% of GDP. We can’t compete that way.
Agreed
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Are they doing this to benefit their employees or do they just want a larger piece of the health care pie; i.e. will it just be more of the ‘company store’ approach?
Here’s an idea that is super radical, lets get health care out of the hands of employers and into the hands of the consumer associations.
I love that these liberal CEOs who most assuredly supported the Affordable Care act along with their lord and savior Barack Obama, are now telling us how out of control Healthcare is.
Don’t get me wrong, let’s innovate and blow the system up, but the irony is laughable. The problems are due to the politicians that they support.
How does he still have teeth …drinking that poison?
He’s a robot.
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The cost of healthcare has everything to do with costs of drugs. Break up the brand name monopolies and let generic drugs take over the market and compete.
Sounds like a risky proposition one would not undertake unless there was a tax cut to reduce said risk. If these companies really want to reduce their healthcare bill, make DNA and family health history a part of the interview process – um, joking.
Check me if I’m wrong, Sandy, but “free from profit-making incentives” hasn’t been a historical recipe for efficiency.