Amazon will get you, my pretty, and your insurance, too!

Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase announced on Tuesday that they would form an independent health care company for their employees in the United States. „Hard as it might be, reducing health care’s burden on the economy while improving outcomes for employees and their families would be worth the effort.“ … The issue is not solely a 21st-century concern: In 1915, Henry Ford became increasingly worried about the quality of health care available to his growing work force in Detroit, so he opened the Henry Ford Hospital. It is still in existence today.


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Margaret Hamilton: The wizard of Oz by Victor Fleming, 1939

New York Times, Nick Wingfield, 30.01.2018