HealthLeaders Media February 15, 2018
Analysts believe Amazon, JPMorgan Chase, and Berkshire Hathaway’s proposed partnership could start with a relatively modest internal health insurance offering and build upon that.
Amazon’s anticipated venture into healthcare has the potential to disrupt traditional markets, especially pharmacy, pharmacy benefits, and supply chain, Standard & Poor’s analysts say.
However, the Byzantine nature of the nation’s $3.3 trillion healthcare sector will also determine the pace of that disruption.
“Given the sheer complexity of healthcare and its importance to our economy, change doesn’t really come fast,” Shannan Murphy, director of Corporate Healthcare Sector for S&P Global, said in a conference call Thursday.
“That said, we do think that change is coming slowly but surely, and certain elements of healthcare are more or...
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