Becker's Healthcare January 25, 2024
Amazon CEO Andy Jassy said modern healthcare is “just kind of nutty” and future generations will look back on this time wondering what we were thinking, Fortune reported.
He described the 2024 experience of making an appointment sometimes far in advance, driving to the physician’s office, sitting in a series of waiting areas, seeing a clinician for a few minutes, then commuting to the pharmacy, according to the Jan. 24 story. He said explaining it to his future grandchildren will be akin to telling his children that we didn’t always have cellphones.
“My kids’ kids will not believe what the healthcare experience was for us,” Mr. Jassy told the news outlet at the recent Davos conference in Switzerland. “That experience...