It's Not a Clinic, It's a Caste System

The "Uncanny Valley" of healthcare. When doctors ALMOST seem to care...

Challenge #3: Lack of price transparency and increasing costs of healthcare. We’re inspired by employer-oriented companies like Amino, as well as progressive providers like Kindbody, who empower consumers with upfront cost estimates for health services.

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.

Affirm for healthcare: Some systems are more amenable to market-driven, bottoms-up evolution than others. I don't believe the American healthcare system is one of them. The root causes of our healthcare affordability crisis are perverse incentives that demand top-down intervention, from increasing payor investment in preventative medicine and prima... See more

In the same way diet culture is quick to blame health conditions on a person’s weight, or prescribe food restriction as treatment toward the goal of being thin, budget culture sees measures like credit scores and debt as signifiers of financial health, and prescribes spending restrictions as the first step toward wellness — defined, at its core, as... See more