Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, JPMorgan to partner on employee healthcare
Amazon (AMZN), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A, BRK.B) and JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPM) announced that they are partnering on ways to address healthcare for their U.S. employees, with the aim of improving employee satisfaction and reducing costs.
The three companies, which bring their scale and complementary expertise to this long-term effort, will pursue this objective through an independent company that is free from profit-making incentives and constraints.
The initial focus of the new company will be on technology solutions that will provide U.S. employees and their families with simplified, high-quality and transparent healthcare at a reasonable cost.
The effort announced today is in its early planning stages, with the initial formation of the company jointly spearheaded by Todd Combs, an investment officer of Berkshire Hathaway; Marvelle Sullivan Berchtold, a Managing Director of JPMorgan Chase; and Beth Galetti, a Senior Vice President at Amazon.
The longer-term management team, headquarters location and key operational details will be communicated in due course.
Health insurance companies are lower in pre-market trading on the news.
Shares of the owners of pharmacy benefit managers, including Express Scripts (ESRX), CVS Health (CVS) and UnitedHealth (UNH), are sliding after Amazon (AMZN), Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A, BRK.B) and JPMorgan Chase (JPM) announced that they are partnering on “ways to address healthcare for their U.S. employees, with the aim of improving employee satisfaction and reducing costs.” The three companies will pursue this objective through an independent company that is “free from profit-making incentives and constraints,” they announced earlier this morning.
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