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posted by martyb on Thursday February 01 2018, @10:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the fixing-what-ails-ya dept.

Amazon Health-Care Move May Be Next 'Home Run' Like Cloud Services

Amazon.com Inc.'s foray into health care won't be the first time it has disrupted an entire industry by starting with an effort inside the company.

Amazon Chief Executive Officer Jeff Bezos is teaming up with fellow billionaires Warren Buffett and Jamie Dimon to revamp health care for the 2.4 million workers and dependents of the companies they run. The move fostered widespread speculation the trio will eventually make their approach to medical care available to companies far and wide.

Bezos has a long, increasingly successful, record of starting new businesses on a small scale, often for the benefit of his company, then spreading them to the masses -- creating a world of pain for incumbents. Consider the ways Amazon is changing industries as varied as product fulfillment, cloud computing and even the sale of cereals, fruits and vegetables.

This is just a cheap excuse to follow up on the machinations of the world's richest human:

Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase to Offer Their Own Health Care to U.S. Employees


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  • (Score: 2, Disagree) by takyon on Thursday February 01 2018, @07:02PM (2 children)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Thursday February 01 2018, @07:02PM (#631621) Journal

    Not a dupe, everything addressed right there in the summary.

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  • (Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday February 01 2018, @07:10PM

    by bob_super (1357) on Thursday February 01 2018, @07:10PM (#631624)

    How is this one not a simple speculation based on the information already contained in the previous one ?

  • (Score: 2) by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us on Thursday February 01 2018, @08:16PM

    by All Your Lawn Are Belong To Us (6553) on Thursday February 01 2018, @08:16PM (#631657) Journal

    Exactly a dupe. Amazon, Berkshire, and JPMorgan are offering their own healthcare program to their employees. That's what TFA here is saying with added frisson of "Look, it's Billionaires and IT MAY BECOME PUBLICLY ACCESSIBLE SOMEDAY JUST LIKE AWS!!!" Based on Absolute Speculation that has No Factual Basis Whatsoever that they'll ever go public with it! But it's exactly the same story.

    But it's on the Internet, so I guess that's OK.

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