Karma November 4, 2019
James Quirk

Amazon and JPMorgan Chase, working with Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway, are rolling out employee healthcare plans, the latest example of big tech making unlikely alliances in an effort to carve out territory in healthcare.

The program, Haven Healthcare, aims to disrupt traditional benefits models, claiming to offer improved incentives and added cost transparency. It’s being offered to 30,000 JPMorgan workers in Ohio and Arizona – about 20% of the bank’s U.S. workforce, according to Bloomberg. Amazon is offering Haven health plans to employees in Connecticut, North Carolina, Utah and Wisconsin. JPMorgan’s initial plan is run by Cigna and Aetna.

Ever since Haven was launched in Boston by JPMorgan, Amazon and Berkshire in 2018 under the direction of physician and writer...

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