4 Insights from Atul Gawande’s Influential ‘Cost Conundrum’ Article

Gawande’s articles in The New Yorker lend some perspective to what he sees as the major drivers of high medical costs and how to address them.

Following the announcement by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase that Dr. Atul Gawande had been selected to serve as CEO of their joint healthcare enterprise, focus is now shifting to his plans on containing high medical costs.

Anyone looking for clues on how Gawande might approach his new job has plenty of material to pull from. His journalistic work has been impressing powerful business people and policymakers for years.

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