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Amazon's Joint Health-Care Venture Finally Has a Name: Haven (cnbc.com)
"Haven" is the new name of the joint health-care venture between Amazon, JPMorgan, and Berkshire Hathaway. The CEOs of the three companies last January announced they were teaming up to tackle rising health-care costs. They formed a nonprofit company and named renowned surgeon, author and speaker Dr. Atul Gawande as CEO in June. CNBC reports: Prior to the big reveal, many industry insiders referred to the venture as "ABC" or "ABJ." The company said the name choice of "Haven" lines up with its mission to be a "partner" to care providers and to focus on the health-care needs of the 1.2 million Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and J.P Morgan workers. Since his appointment, Gawande has been meeting with employees at these three companies to understand their health-care experiences. In addition to its new brand, the company also unveiled a website with more details about the venture, including a number of areas of focus. These include: Improving the process of navigating the complex health-care system, and accessing affordable treatments and prescription drugs.
Haven also said on its website that it's interested in working with clinicians and insurance companies to improve the overall health-care system, suggesting the venture wants to work with existing players such as insurers, providers and pharmacy benefit managers rather than uprooting them. The website also includes a letter where Gawande describes Haven's role as being "an advocate for the patient and an ally to anyone -- clinicians, industry leaders, innovators, policymakers, and others -- who makes patient care and costs better."
Haven also said on its website that it's interested in working with clinicians and insurance companies to improve the overall health-care system, suggesting the venture wants to work with existing players such as insurers, providers and pharmacy benefit managers rather than uprooting them. The website also includes a letter where Gawande describes Haven's role as being "an advocate for the patient and an ally to anyone -- clinicians, industry leaders, innovators, policymakers, and others -- who makes patient care and costs better."
Haven for what?
Unpaid taxes?
Hoarded personal and medical data?
I may have misspelled something.
Unless you own shares of Berkshire, or have signed up for "Haven Prime" your ambulance will take more than 2 days to take you to a hospital, and no gurney, they'll just toss you onto the steps, /s
With backers like that, why not just buy some Health insurance companies?
... it sounds like like something out a sci-fi futuristic dystopian book where one company owns everything and everybody worships this one company, and eventually, the company goes from selling things into "health care"...
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I hope this isn't a requirement.
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I am sure the people will benefit. Billionaires don't want anything from you.
Turn your head and cough. Like a good little prole.
Government employees and contractors tend to be paid better than Amazon scut workers. I hope that this gets the AMA behind public option or single payer.
Or you can give a pint of blood a day. The choice is yours, customer.
thanks republicans.
and we'll finally have single payer via Medicare for All. Seriously, not everything deserves a market solution. Paying for Healthcare is one of those things that doesn't work at a small scale. You just end up fighting with insurance companies for needed care and paying insane prices for meds.
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Haven also said on its website that it's interested in working with clinicians and insurance companies to improve the overall health-care system, suggesting the venture wants to work with existing players such as insurers, providers and pharmacy benefit managers rather than uprooting them.
It sounds like the old quip about XML can be paraphrased to apply here:
"A set of healthcare middlemen is like violence -- If it doesn't solve your problems, you are not using enough of it."
customer. Then the complaints start. However, Buffet is a re-insurance expert, so that may be where they operate -- ie the insurance company that rejects your claim after your regular insurance company refuses to pay. That way it's mostly just profit without ever having to deliver any service.
With the United States paying the highest healthcare rates in the world for the same or worse coverage than other 1st world countries, it seems fairly obvious that there is a large amount of waste that can be tidied up by streamlining things. Streamlining is Amazon's wheel house. Insurance is one of Berkshire Hathoway's primary businesses. Financing core services is what JP Morgan does.
These three companies have the right experience, leverage and knowledge to be able to make a large dent in this market. They stand to make $3k-$5k per U.S. citizen and not provide anything better in return. There is a large amount of money sitting out on the table for a very large and inefficient healthcare system. The U.S. system is ripe for fixing. If the citizens don't do it, the corporations will.
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At least check out Atul Gawande's books, and in particular the summary about the use of checklists in medical care. I recall one of the main SQLite developers saying he bought a copy of "The Checklist Manifesto" for all of his subordinates.
I can see it already. Amazon workers peeing into bottles serving your prescription on a warehouse without air conditioning. Of course nothing bad will happen.
That is the biggest problem in the U.S. by far. We are in desperate need of more doctors and nurses as more and more people seek out health care services. Unfortunately many people don't understand that if you take an overwhelmed system and throw in more customers (demand) in to the system it gets even worse. Costs go up. Prime the pump with more workers first. States could incentivize professional healthcare workers. Don't do it at the federal level, it's too inefficient and corrupt.
"A plan fiendishly clever in its intricacies"- Homer Simpson
Be sure to get Haven Prime so you don't have to pay an extra fee per IV line.