‘We Want to Support People Being in Their Home’: Walmart, Amazon Outline Health Care Strategies

If home-based care is not a very real part of both Amazon (Nasdaq: AMZN) and Walmart’s (NYSE: WMT) future health care plans, each has done a bad job of hiding it lately.

During MATTER’s recent “Healthcare 2040: Changing Care Delivery Models” virtual event, each behemoth company had a representative touting home-based care and the outsized role it would play in the future of U.S. health care.

“We want to support people being in their home and aging in place,” Walmart Health Senior Vice President Marcus Osborne said during the event. “We also want to address social isolation and … how technology is playing a role there.”

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