THE RISE OF ATUL GAWANDE

June 2018 \ Cover Story \ COVER STORY

THE RISE OF ATUL GAWANDE

It’s not every day that Warren Buffet, Jeff Bezos and Jamie Dimon find the time to get together and hunt for a suitable...

It turns out that this unique executive search committee made up of this celebrated troika of corporate chieftains was looking for a highly respected professional to come up with ways to bring down healthcare costs for employees in their own companies who overall number about 1.2 million. If solutions eventually work out, then they can be applied to the entire nation. While announcing the venture in January 2018, Dimon said, “Our goal is to create solutions that benefit our U.S. employees, their families and, potentially, all Americans.”WRITER WITH SURGICAL PRECISION: Dr Gawande’s article on The Cost Conundrum in the New Yorker in 2009 pointed out exactly why healthcare had become vastly expensive in some parts of the USA. Among others, it impressed Warren Buffet