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by jonlucc 2926 days ago
For now, but if I remember correctly, the goal is for these companies to offer this as their employees' health plans before expanding more broadly. For those people (and there are somewhere around a million customers between the companies), this could be worse than not being offered insurance.
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They have no publicly stated goal to expand more broadly. That's nothing more than media speculation and or wishful thinking.

Buffett has repeatedly said this is not an entity that is meant to offer services beyond the scope of the three companies or similar. They plan to share what they learn, and Buffett has said he hopes that can help other companies and the wider healthcare system.

Here's probably the best talk he has given on the subject (13 minutes long, from a few months ago):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4fuVC6zCJI