One way to size up Amazon.com's new effort to rethink U.S. health benefits is to look at thehealth benefits Amazon already offers.

The Seattle-based web retailer rattled Wall Street Tuesday byannouncing it will team up with Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathawayand JPMorgan Chase & Company to create a health care benefits company to be describedlater.

One of the few details available is that Beth Galetti, theAmazon senior vice president who signs Amazon's health plan Form5500 tax returns, will be one of the project planners.

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Allison Bell

Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.