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...This is the last mile of healthcare. Some big regulatory issues too of course. WhatsApp to WesPete: Ha, no I wouldn’t call myself a futurist. Just a comms guy with an eye on the horizon....
...Early estimates by the European Commission said the regulations would push up prices for services from companies such as Uber and Bolt by 40 per cent....
...“People have to consider the cost of healthcare as they get older,” said Jobson....
...Horizon is just another painful chapter in the long story of Big IT failure: no empathy for users, leaders that do not understand the value of service delivery and technology, and a civil service culture...
...It culminated last week with the sale of a $5bn loan that backed KKR’s purchase of a stake in a healthcare technology company known as Cotiviti....
...In 2021, it was buoyed by funds from the likes of Blackstone Horizon and big ambitions in US primary healthcare....
...OpenAI will likely begin offering corporate services, including customer support, through the Tokyo office. Hiring local talent in Japan is also on the horizon....
...This serves no one, including the brilliant young people who are recruited into the civil service....
...But with no solution on the horizon, this is morphing into panic....
...Icahn said in a press release last week: “Given our hedge portfolio and the frequent long time horizon of our complex activist investments, our returns can often be lumpy....
...(One day, you never know, the discussion might actually turn to the UK’s crumbling public services and infrastructure.)...
...Veritas Capital is in talks to sell a 50 per cent stake in healthcare technology company Cotiviti to private equity giant KKR, in a deal that would value the business at up to $11bn, according to three people...
...In its mid-year report, PwC found that volumes for US health services deals were 4 per cent lower than in 2022....
...But investors with long time horizons and the willingness to stick to general rather than exotic equity risk can still get rich. They may not live to 99 or become billionaires....
...There are of course clouds on the horizon. Google’s antitrust trial could cause a meaningful, but not huge, hit to revenue if Google can no longer pay to be the default search engine on Apple products....
...He expanded my horizons.”...
...They undergo regular tests and fill out forms, in the service of the greater good....
...“There [was] nothing in the culture that indicated . . . that there was any reason for me to believe that coming forward would preserve my professional momentum, my healthcare at the time, my livelihood,...
...Adding Horizon would give Amgen excessive leverage in such horse-trading, the FTC claims. Healthcare spending accounts for about a fifth of US economic output....
...There’s already competition under way between the two camps to finance KKR’s investment in healthcare technology business Cotiviti....
...The state-run healthcare system has 7.6mn people in England alone waiting for non-emergency hospital treatment....
...However, the FTC’s case against Amgen is targeted at the power the company allegedly wields more broadly with health insurers and middlemen in the US healthcare system, known as pharmacy benefit managers...
...“We don’t consider the transformation process within the legal services as a one-off,” says Martínez Garrido....
...Why has communication services outperformed? Because the sector is weighted massively to Alphabet, which has done well, for reasons that are not totally clear to us....
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