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?

...

Today's Sponsors

LEK
ZeOmega

Today's Sponsor

LEK

 
Topics: Employer, Health System / Hospital, Healthcare System, Payer, Self-insured
Lee Health to launch hospital-at-home program
Henry Ford COO looks at shaping culture, operations with Ascension JV
Yale New Haven Health upgrades Epic
10 health systems grow hospital at home
34 statistics on hospital profitability

Share This Article