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Gawande named to lead health care company for Amazon, JP Morgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway

Dan Gorenstein Jun 20, 2018
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Gawande named to lead health care company for Amazon, JP Morgan Chase and Berkshire Hathaway

Dan Gorenstein Jun 20, 2018
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Earlier this year, corporate titans Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett and Jamie Dimon announced they would team up to form a new health care company. Their mission: Improve health and save a few bucks for the 1 million people who work for Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase. Today we learned that Atul Gawande will lead this still-to-be-named venture. Gawande is an accomplished surgeon, a Harvard professor, a staff writer at the New Yorker and a best-selling author.

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