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Serious question: can a non-profit or not-for-profit be the target of anti-trust / monopoly charges? If not, every for-profit health insurance provider is screwed. (Good riddance).

https://mobile.nytimes.com/2018/01/30/technology/amazon-berkshire-hathaway-jpmorgan-health-care.html...

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nitinkhanna
nitinkhanna via Micro.blog

@cleverdevil why would this be subject to any monopoly charges? They've only set it up for their own employees.

Chris Moyer
Chris Moyer via Twitter

More importantly, how can other companies, or individuals, get into this plan....

cleverdevil
cleverdevil via Micro.blog

@nitinkhanna and other large companies could join. With more and more scale, they'd achieve more risk distribution, and lower and lower costs.

cleverdevil
cleverdevil via Micro.blog

@nitinkhanna agreed :)

nitinkhanna
nitinkhanna via Micro.blog

@cleverdevil well that's the argument for medical insurance companies all the way, right? The bigger they are, the better they'd be at lowering cost. I wonder if there's a way for the government to prevent monopoly there? Hmmm. If only there were some external way for the govt to control medical costs...

nitinkhanna
nitinkhanna via Micro.blog

@cleverdevil I hope they knock it out of the park and induct two-three companies per year into the roster. Would be epic!