How Amazon, CVS and Walgreens Are Tapping Into the $4 Trillion Healthcare Market | WSJ

Corporate giants from Amazon to CVS are investing billions into primary-care practices. It’s part of a sweeping shift in U.S. healthcare to a more value-based model. Here’s what that means for doctors, patients and health insurers.

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[fahdh]

These companies are just trying to make more money. It has nothing at all to do with value based care. I see many (poor) offers from these companies, and I do not intend to work for them as a primary care physician.

[baronlowe]

Want to REALLY reduce healthcare costs? Focus more on preventative care. Reactionary care will routinely cost more, regardless if it’s fee for service or value-based care.

[Burnlit]

Isn't there a student debt forgiveness floating around in Congress right now? Maybe they could approve forgiving graduating doctors if they go into PCP, allowing them to take a much lower salary and go into PCP.

[PristinePerceptions]

The editor really liked the sound of coins, I see.

[ToniSkit]

How about make a universal basic healthcare services and cost . I.e a floor with the minimum needed to have a decent healthcare system with fixed and transparent prices across the USA as opposed to having contracted, non transparent conditional, adaptive pricing which is negotiated between all businesses including the hospitals via their chargemasters…

[Quanic]

As a registered nurse, I can see why there's a large push for nurse practitioners: there's not enough primary care providers in the US.

But NP's don't make as much as PCP's.

As a matter of fact I make more as a floor RN than an NP.

[Bash]

There being a "market" for healthcare is the core of the issue

[RKO]

WSJ doing some cute Pharma advertising

[Lynn-cerr]

I will never go to a doctor or take any medication that came threw Amazon in any way....

[DI-ukrj]

a value based system would definitely bring down costs and seems better for patient outcomes but I worry the the savings will just be turned into profit for these companies.

[coconutologist]

Excellent video. More LEGO productions please.

[kaymish]

My mum and sister in law both work in the medical sector. They both say that when Americans come in they always ask for way more tests than they really need and don't trust that 99% of the time the doctor already knows what you have before they do the one test and second third and fourth tests are unnecessary.

[kanegrey]

Good luck trying to find staff!

There’s a shortage of medical staff

[userabc]

It makes it sound like value-based care is free compared to fee-for-service, but we all know that's not the case.

[donreinholz]

Interesting. I don't see how lower costs ever translate to better care. Too much money to be made in our Healthcare system. Look at Advantage plans and how they make them sound so great with constant advertising but yhey don't tell you the real facts about co-pays and higher death rates.

[tonicalloway]

Amazon?..I don't know if I like Amazon being too many things..the reason being is that:Amazon hires people at its facilities in waves for say..15dollars per hour..then Amazon lays that whole wave off before they get raises..and is always building hubs, so they can lay-off at this hub and hire at this hub and keep the rate of pay at 15dollars..Amazon is sly, so would you want to work under them anywhere else?..Amazon laying off and hiring at the same time is the biggest "flim-flam" ever!

[Xenon-]

Corporations should be limited to a certain number of sectors. This is ridiculous. What's next? Amazon universities?

[MentholKratom]

Anyone else love this ladies voice? It’s like unintentional ASMR

[TomM]

Now they are cutting staff, maybe they shouldn't be paying their CEO over $20 million dollars along with a lot more executives. It's time this country realizes these CEO's don't need to be paid millions of dollars worth of salaries and benefits.

[KasNinja]

Really interested to see if Kermit PPI can continue gaining traction to help hospitals curb these crazy costs. I know they help with capitated pricing