Massive companies like Apple and Amazon are exploring new ways to care for the health of their employees — and it could upend the way healthcare’s done

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• Apple is launching health clinics  where its employees can get care in the spring, CNBC reported on Tuesday.  
• Employers, especially those acting as their employee's health insurers like Apple does, are starting to take a more active role in healthcare. 
• The move, along with the news that JPMorgan, Amazon and Berkshire Hathaway are forming a new independent nonprofit venture aimed at lowering healthcare costs for their employees, has people looking at employer-sponsored health plans in a new light.

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Companies like Apple are starting to take a more active role in their employees' healthcare. 

That includes confronting the rising cost of healthcare, along with attempts to try and improve the quality of the care their employees receive.

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