“No matter how smart and innovative they may be in their core businesses, employers cannot go it alone when it comes to reforming our dysfunctional health care system,” says David Blumenthal, M.D., commenting on the recent decision by Amazon, Berkshire Hathaway, and JPMorgan Chase to close Haven, their venture aimed at transforming U.S. health care.

Writing in Harvard Business Review, the Commonwealth Fund’s president argues that “the overriding lesson of Haven’s failure is that if employers wish to make the health care sector perform better for their employees, they will have to ally with the one purchaser that has market power everywhere and that has successfully implemented fundamental changes in health care payment and delivery: the federal government and its Medicare and Medicaid programs.”

Learn what Blumenthal believes are six key imperatives for reforming health care payment and delivery in the U.S.