The following is an excerpt from modernhealthcare.com:

Guest Commentary: The days of incremental change are over; it’s a brave new world in healthcare

Are we ready for one-click healthcare? That’s one of the promises of the partnership announced recently by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan.

It’ll be difficult, to say the least, for these pioneering companies to disrupt the American healthcare system. But one thing’s for certain—we’re going to learn a lot from the experience.

Their announcement is significant for reasons that go far beyond the combined 1.2 million employees whose medical costs they hope to bring under control. This is a landmark event because it means the world’s most innovative employers are no longer content for healthcare to remain stuck in the ’90s. It means they’re tired of the lack of transparency, the massive inequities in care across the country and the utter lack of focus on what consumers need—the qualities that define our current healthcare system.

Healthcare is the only consumer product or service that doesn’t focus on the needs of consumers. This has to change. Health-focused corporations need to become consumer healthcare entities where the patient is the boss. The major healthcare industries have taken a slow and steady approach to the changing dynamic, focused on preserving the status quo. But we don’t have time for slow and steady. One can imagine Jeff Bezos, Warren Buffett and Jamie Dimon screaming, “We’re mad as hell and we’re not going to take it anymore!” They’re taking matters into their own hands, and we should all join them.