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> If it wasn’t then, theoretically the US healthcare industry would grind to a halt considering the number of intermediaries for a single transaction. It just
by aiforecastthway 2y ago
> If it wasn’t then, theoretically the US healthcare industry would grind to a halt considering the number of intermediaries for a single transaction.
It just occurred to me that cleaning up our country's data privacy / data ownership mess might have extraordinarily positive second-order effects on our Kafkaesque and criminally expensive healthcare "system".
Maybe making it functionally impossible for there to be hundreds of middlemen between me and my doctor would be a... good thing?
- throwaway936r8 2y agoI think it would have the opposite effect. We could end up with a few all-in-one systems that would dominate the market and have little incentive to improve or compete on usability and price.
- Spooky23 2y agoOnly if your mortgage isn’t paid by such a middleman.
- specialist 2y agoCorrect. Would also mostly stop a lot of scams like identity theft. A national identity service, like a normal mature economy, would be a massive public policy and public health win. But it'd slightly decrease profits. So of course is quite impossible to implement.