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Welcome to Insider Healthcare. I'm Lydia Ramsey Pflanzer, and today in healthcare news:
- We broke the news that Amazon is trying to persuade insurers like Aetna to cover its medical-care service;
- Inside Moderna's lab, where the biotech is developing cubes that could pump out vaccines almost instantly;
- Upstart health insurers are taking a page out of UnitedHealth's playbook.
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Patients talk to a physician with Amazon Care's app.
Amazon Care
Amazon Care
Amazon is trying to persuade Aetna and other health plans to cover its medical-care service, but it stumbled out of the gate
- Amazon's medical service has approached several health plans to become a covered benefit.
- That would allow Amazon to reach more people and more companies.
- But Amazon Care isn't set up to do business the way some of the health plans want.
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Moderna is developing 6-foot cubes with the US military that could pump out vaccines almost instantly. It's the biotech upstart's next step in the mRNA revolution.
- Moderna and the US military are working on a miniaturized vaccine-manufacturing process.
- The goal is to develop a portable cube that can produce doses in mere days.
- It could improve global access to mRNA medicine and help thwart outbreaks.
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A new breed of health insurers is taking a page out of UnitedHealth's book and providing care directly to patients, and it could reshape the US healthcare industry
- Health insurer upstarts have made care delivery a core part of their business strategies.
- Alignment, Bright, Clover, and Devoted all employ doctors and care for their directly.
- They're betting that doing so will help them lower costs and compete against industry giants.
More stories we're reading:
- An analysis found that Medicare spent more than Costco did on the same generic drugs (CNN)
- A leading US disease expert says there's 'no doubt in my mind' that vaccinated people are helping spread Delta (Insider)
- One Medical's workers are unionizing (Modern Healthcare)
- Vermont is about to become the first state to reach herd immunity. Massachusetts and Hawaii are close behind. (Insider)
- Lydia
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