Warren Buffett says there's 'enormous resistance to change' as Haven looks to revamp healthcare
Complacency will make fixing the nation's health-care system a daunting task, according to Warren Buffett, whose Berkshire Hathaway recently joined with J.P. Morgan Chase and Amazon to develop a new model for their 1 million employees.
"We have a $3.4 trillion industry, which is as much as the federal government raises every year, that basically feels pretty good about the system," Buffett said."There's enormous resistance to change while a similar acknowledgement that change will be needed. And of course if the private sector doesn't supply that over a period of time, people will say 'we give up, we've got to turn this over to the government,' which will probably be even worse.
"We've got this incredible economic machine but we shouldn't be spending 18 percent when other countries are doing something pretty comparable in terms of doctors per capita and hospital beds per capita," Buffett told Yahoo Finance."We're paying a price."
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