What was most remarkable about last week’s announcement that three United States business giants would form an independent health care company was what was not said.
Missing from the announcement was any indication that while Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JPMorgan Chase feel obligated to move forward with their own plan, they believe in their corporate heart of hearts that government is better positioned to provide health care coverage.
No, instead of using the words “Obamacare,” “Affordable Care Act,” “universal health care” or “federal government,” they simply said in their announcement they want to focus on technology to provide simplified, high-quality health care for their employees and families, and at a reasonable cost.
Their plan would, the companies noted, be “free from profit-making incentives and constraints” and one day could be expanded to benefit all Americans.
Make no mistake, though. All three companies have been intimately linked to left-wing politics, the purveyors of which much prefer federal government control over the nation’s health care system.