Amazon Deal Brightens Blasé January Health Transactions Landscape

The late January announcement that Amazon.com Inc., BerkshireHathaway Inc., and JPMorgan Chase & Co. plan to join forces to meet their employees’ health-care needs created a lot of health-care industry dealmaking buzz in a month that was otherwise on the quiet side.

The announcement sent shock waves through the health-care industry because the three companies aim to change how health care is provided to their combined 1 million U.S. employees and because the move has the potential to revolutionize health-care delivery and payment in America more broadly. It also helped transform a month that started out a bit dull on the health-care transactions front, but ended with a bang.

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