In Newsweek
Tech giants like Amazon are getting into the health care business
From my cover story in the December 3, 2019, Newsweek
Armed with two-day delivery, Amazon put thousands of stores out of business and established hegemony in retail. Along with others in Big Tech, the company also turned what you might have thought were your private doings into a marketable product. Now Amazon is positioning itself to move into health care in a big way. Experts think the $230-billion-in-annual-revenues retail giant is preparing to launch a service aimed at bringing nearly all health care together in a single, user-friendly app with all the convenience and pricing-transparency of its online store–and all the privacy and competition-crushing concerns, too….Read more
David H. Freedman 