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There is no money in preventative health care.
by RobertRoberts 4y ago
There is no money in preventative health care.
- epicureanideal 4y agoMaybe there should be? There’s got to be a startup there. Combine long term health insurance with a research arm that ensures the disease is cured and it never needs to pay out?
- klabb3 4y ago> There’s got to be a startup there. When all you have is a hammer something something.. In all seriousness, the majority of the developed world has solved the incentive problems with preventative care.
- epicureanideal 4y agoSingle payer health care seems to be another reasonable way of aligning incentives, although as it’s critics will point out it also has other drawbacks.
- pfisherman 4y agoThere is plenty of money in preventative care. You should check vaccine sales numbers. A vaccine platform just got acquired by a drug company for over $3B. Wellness - dieticians, massage therapists, smart watches, etc - is a multibillion possibly even a trillion dollar industry.
- TaupeRanger 4y agoThere is a ton of money in preventative care. But even if you were right, we have no idea if prevention of Alzheimer's is even possible, or what it would take to do so.