Fierce Healthcare February 13, 2018
Kent Bottles

Amazon’s new venture with Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase has gotten a lot of buzz, but will it really disrupt the healthcare delivery system?

Some say that a skeptic is merely an optimist with experience.

One person who fits that bill is Alan J. Burgener, a full-time skeptic and provocateur who is one of the smartest and most insightful healthcare leaders I have encountered over several decades.

Burgener was not impressed with my latest Hospital Impact post, which concluded that the Amazon-Berkshire Hathaway-JPMorgan Chase venture and the proposed CVS-Aetna merger might actually disrupt our dysfunctional healthcare system.

In the following email exchange, I get to the heart of why:

Bottles: Do you think these recent collaborations will disrupt healthcare?

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