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Kevin Roche

The Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry through Roche Consulting, LLC. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.

Jul 22 2022

Amazon has been a very successful retail company, but not very profitable.  It has continued to push to expand to new markets, including health care.  It announced yesterday that it is buying a company with a number of primary care clinics, One Medical, for around $4 billion.  I think Amazon also hopes to use its relationship as a retail channel with thousands of small companies to help them provide health benefits to employees and apparently sees ownership of a primary care company as part of that strategy.  We will see, historically outsiders who come into health care do terribly.

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/amazon-to-acquire-one-medical-in-3-9b-deal.html?origin=CIOE&utm_source=CIOE&utm_medium=email&utm_content=newsletter&oly_enc_id=4013B4524489F1Y
Jul 21 2022

Three large employers thought they would change health care by creating a company called Haven.  It went nowhere, after a lot of money down the tubes.  One was JP Morgan, which then created a division called Morgan Health.  Morgan Health has been investing in firms it thinks can control health care costs.  The latest is $30 million for Centivo, which helps employers run self-funded plans.  I hate to break it to JP Morgan but their health investments look as much like bad ideas as Haven was.

https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/payers/morgan-health-makes-30m-investment-centivo
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