Yahoo Finance March 21, 2019
Former Aetna CEO Mark Bertolini says folks should spend more time watching Amazon specifically than Haven — the joint venture among Amazon (AMZN), JPMorgan Chase (JPM), and Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A, BRK.B) — when it comes to health care.
“[Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s] move to do HSAs and FSAs through the cloud on his site is a bigger deal than anything Haven’s done,” Bertolini said in an interview with Yahoo Finance. “His idea to go buy PillPack is not about buying drugs. It’s about getting into the home.”
Bertolini’s thesis around addressing rising health care costs is about working with patients in the home before they become sick.
“We can do more in the home around providing services, nutrition… I can...