America’s health care system seems, paradoxically, both endlessly innovative and profoundly dysfunctional. On the one hand, we hear almost daily about flashy new ventures like, most recently, Amazon’s recent purchase of One Medical, a large provider of primary care, that promise transformative improvements in health care efficiency, quality, and service.
Amazon’s Foray into Primary Care Won’t Be Easy
After its acquisition of One Medical, how will the giant navigate the U.S.’s $4.1 trillion health care sector?
August 02, 2022
Summary.
In acquiring One Medical for $3.9 billion, Amazon is signaling that it can succeed in transforming primary care in the United States. But while Amazon has tremendous financial resources, talent, IT skills, and patience —as well as a proven ability to turn economic sectors upside down — it faces enormous challenges in trying to create a new model for primary care in America’s huge, troubled, tangled health care sector.
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