Data Provocation: Hospitals are broken and ripe for technological disruption. I have been following General Catalyst’s bold moves lately, including helping found several healthcare companies and most recently acquiring an entire healthcare system in the United States. My hope is that this leads to a vertically integrated re-imagination of healthca

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Those are promising signs. On the other hand, the fundamental economics of the value-based arrangement still aren’t clear. If fee-for-service turns out to more profitable for both payer and provider, then value-based care won’t survive outside of Medicare Advantage. And there have been failures in the past, as cited above.