Bezos, Buffett and Dimon's Health Push Years in the Making

  • Three billionaires act on shared frustration over health care
  • Todd Combs key to creating Amazon-Berkshire-JPMorgan venture
Techonomy CEO David Kirkpatrick calls the Amazon health-care partnership "brilliant."(Source: Bloomberg)
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It’s a stronghold of insider Washington, a place where billionaires and former presidents mingle in black-tie splendor.

Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett and Jamie Dimon were there, of course. But few in the invitation-only crowd last Saturday at the annual Alfalfa Club gala could have guessed that the men were quietly closing in on what could be the answer to a question that divides the nation: How do we fix American health care?