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It's Not a Clinic, It's a Caste System
- Rather than trying to improve them, the most exciting health tech companies will ignore the parts of healthcare that have become obviously anachronistic, actively discarding convention. The seeds of this difference have been sown in a handful of companies started in the last few years. They are painstakingly taking relationships from incumbents, wi... See more
from Things I’m Thinking About In Healthcare Part 1 by Nikhil Krishnan
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To have a poorly understood disease is to be brought up against every flaw in the U.S. health care system; to collide with the structural problems of a late-capitalist society that values productivity more than health; and to confront the philosophical problem of conveying an experience that lacks an accepted framework.
from The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness by Meghan O'Rourke
- We’ve recreated the healthcare system by basically moving to a system of 3rd party payer, where people basically don’t have to pay for it themselves, because there's so many subsidies directly and indirectly built into the system that it breaks down all accountability from consumers.
from The Higher Education Bubble Pt. 2 by Erik Torenberg
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