Healthcare in the U.S. is broken. It is one of the few industries where a vast chasm exists between the provider of the service and the consumer. Price discovery in this dark chasm is a futile and often frustrating experience. It also happens to be an entrenched industry that has been difficult to disrupt.
For a period of time the holy trinity of capitalism, Berkshire Hathaway (BRK.A), JPMorgan Chase (JPM) and Amazon (AMZN) came together to provide low-cost health insurance with Dr. Atul Gawande at the helm of this initiative. They gave up three years later.