Commonwealth Fund July 18, 2019
David Blumenthal, M.D., Robert Galvin, M.D.

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Retail giants and financial services companies like Amazon and J.P. Morgan are looking at ways to transform the health care system to reduce costs and improve care

Private-market players “have lots of running room” to make a difference in health care, as long as they understand the sector’s complexity

Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, J.P. Morgan Chase, Walmart, CVS, and others are putting big dollars behind the private sector’s latest run at taming our costly, inefficient health care system. Will they succeed?

The private sector has tried its hand at health care before, and the results have been disappointing. The managed care revolution of the 1990s, pushed by employers and insurers, clamped down...

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