Amazon has joined forces with Warren Buffett’s
Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase in a bid to slash health care
costs for their 1.1 million employees -- creating a possible "black
swan" event that could disrupt the industry.
Together, the three partners will combine
resources to create an independent company that will initially focus on
“technology solutions” to provide “high-quality and transparent health
care at a reasonable cost.”
“Amazon is well poised to enter, and disrupt,
the health care industry as we know it," Forrester Senior Analyst Kate
McCarthy said in an email. "They have the scale and digital and customer
experience capacity to bring efficiencies and improvements to the
industry that are long overdue."
Working out the business with their own
employees first would be a a smart way to test the product out before
opening it up to the general market, she said, and that could be a
gamechanger.
"I'm not going to call this a black swan event
yet because there are few details and would be making too many
assumptions but it has potential to be," Jared Holz, analyst at
Jefferies, told CNBC in email.
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Source: NBC News
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