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Health care stocks swooned when Amazon announced its plan to form a non-profit health-care company for its US employees. Headlines like “Will Amazon do to health care what it did to books?” raised the prospect that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos would bring his hard-nosed bargaining style and Amazon’s vast technology resources to bear on health-care providers and pharmaceutical companies.

That may well be a component of the strategy as Amazon and its partners—Berkshire Hathaway and JP Morgan Chase—attack the formidable challenge of driving down health-care costs and delivering better health care. The three titans can use their heft to demand better pricing and to vertically integrate, forming their own health care clinics and drug-distribution networks for instance.