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* In my opinion, the US healthcare system is a horrifying impediment to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. To answer your question: I wish startups would
by abawany 11y ago
* In my opinion, the US healthcare system is a horrifying impediment to life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness. To answer your question: I wish startups would disrupt the healthcare industry in the same way Lyft/Uber disrupted transportation, AirBnb did for short term rentals, and Amazon did for online purchasing. These are controversial examples but all I ask of you is to go back a month before these respective services were announced and examine the convenience factor of your life vs. what it became after the existence of these services.
While I liked how refreshing Health Sherpa was to use compared to healthcare.gov of the early years, I think a more fundamental disruption of the healthcare industry is needed. All the various middlemen with their high overheads, the plethora of paper pushers, coders (what a travesty of a fine word), etc. Some examples of healthcare niches that are ripe for disruption include supplies for disabled individuals, building provider networks not beholden to the Hades of the regular insurance industry, enabling medical tourism, etc.