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Surgeon Atul Gawande selected as CEO of new health care company from Amazon, partners
Dr. Atul Gawande — the prominent physician, prolific writer, and all-around health care celebrity — will become the chief executive of the new health care company launched by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase, the three companies announced Wednesday.
Gawande, a surgeon at Brigham and Women's Hospital in Boston who teaches at Harvard's medical and public health schools, will take charge of the new organization July 9. In a note sent to friends and colleagues, Gawande said that he is not giving up his positions at Harvard or the Brigham and that he will keep writing, including for the New Yorker. But he said he will transition from being executive director to chairman of Ariadne Labs, which works on solving problems in health systems around the world.
The new company will be based in Boston.
[...] Not much has been revealed about the new health care enterprise from the three corporate giants; in the release Wednesday, it doesn't even have a name. The new organization is meant to come up with ways to address the health care costs for the companies' employees, though its founders have indicated they hope that it comes up with solutions that could be spread across the entire U.S. health system.
Also at CNBC and TechCrunch.
Previously: Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase to Offer Their Own Health Care to U.S. Employees
(Score: 2) by fadrian on Thursday June 21 2018, @05:54PM (5 children)
I can see anything from corporate wellness campaigns writ large to actual evidence-based improvements coming from this.
I hope they find some good improvements to spread around, because with all the corporate parasites sucking the life out of healthcare, we need some.
That is all.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Thursday June 21 2018, @06:25PM (4 children)
The first improvement could have been to not have a C-suite.
If you're gonna have highly-paid people who expect incentives, that money must come from somewhere...
(Score: 2) by frojack on Thursday June 21 2018, @09:24PM (3 children)
Well when you look at it now, ALL it HAS is a C-Suite.
The tendency I see here is the likelihood it will become cradle to grave health care by one company, managing your life, and telling you what you can't do, You won't be able to afford to change jobs. The Japanese system on steroids and raging.
They intend to cut out the middle men. Not content to get rid of Insurance companies, they also want to get rid of outside medical providers in just about every case. It will all be done In-Company. The Corporation will be Your God.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by bob_super on Thursday June 21 2018, @09:43PM (2 children)
> The tendency I see here is the likelihood it will become cradle to grave health care by one company, managing your life,
> and telling you what you can't do, You won't be able to afford to change jobs.
How is that different from the pre-Obamacare system, exactly ?
Despite what the usual screeching crowd says, single-payer is freedom.
(Score: 2) by frojack on Thursday June 21 2018, @10:08PM (1 child)
Very different.
There was a healthy private insurance market. (I'm still a rate payer there).
And you could change jobs with impunity - because if you had coverage - you were assumed to be insurable. And contrary to the bullshit the liberal press has been force feeding you there was also coverage for pre-existing conditions. My brother in law with Polio deformities never had a problem getting a job. Companies begged him to quit and come to work for them.
He has skills and brains and drive and charisma. He remained insured his whole life even when changing employers.
If you got none of those, don't be surprised if a job is illusive.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 3, Informative) by bob_super on Thursday June 21 2018, @10:40PM
I like your alternative reality, can I move in, or will I lose my children at the gate?
I know too many people who were scared of losing their insurance, or lost the coverage they needed, or spent weeks delayed because they couldn't get the certificate of continuous coverage crap ... middle-class people with decent jobs.
My engineer coworker, whose wife needed leg surgery before they could get started on their second child, got delayed by paperwork for over a year, then he had to change jobs and she had to restart the paperwork from scratch, and by the time the surgery happened a couple years later, she was getting old enough to worry about the risks, and that kid never happened. Talk about the insurance company controlling your life !
I didn't need the press to tell me about those, thanks !
I forgot ... everyone else must be wrong, and the US is somehow the only place which has it right, maths and stats be damned.