Integrated primary care could play a starring role in the Amazon–JP Morgan–Buffet health care enterprise.


Earlier this year, Amazon, J. P. Morgan, and Berkshire Hathaway announced plans to launch a joint health care company with more than a million covered lives. Dr. Atul Gawande, the prominent Boston-based surgeon and health care thought leader, will become the first chief executive officer of this health care venture, with a mission to get the best results at the lowest costs and remain free from profit-making incentives and constraints. In this presidential column, the author explores what this has to do with the mission in the Collaborative Family Health care Association (CFHA) and the promulgation of integrated health care. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved)