One Chart That Explains Why Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett Are Getting into Health Care

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One Chart That Explains Why Jeff Bezos and Warren Buffett Are Getting into Health Care

Joshua Roberts

The Kaiser Family Foundation's Larry Levitt tweeted out this chart today, writing: “This is the trend Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan are aiming at: Health insurance premium increases have far outpaced wage growth.”

For more on the subject, check out this piece by Axios’ Bob Herman detailing how “health care is eating up a bigger share of paychecks that already don't go as far as they used to.”

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