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Why does disruption(1) seem not to work in healtcare: 1. Disruption means offering something with less quality(but good enough). People are less willing to m
by hershel 13y ago
Why does disruption(1) seem not to work in healtcare:
1. Disruption means offering something with less quality(but good enough). People are less willing to make those compromises in health care.
2. Industry players(big businesses, doctors, nurses) have huge amount of political power, partly because of 1, In an highly regulated industry - this means disruptors aren't allowed.
3.insurance makes people disregard the costs of treatment, again stopping disruptors.
If I remember correctly,Clayton Christensen is aware of those issues, and his first silution(before democrats came to power) was health vouchers.
I think he believed they will enter price competition into the market, hopefully people will be willing to use disruptive innovations, and maybe with the potential new money, disruptors will succeed in lobbying and changing the rules.
That is one solution.
Anyway, if anybody want to lower the costs of medicine, those issues are need to be dealt with. The author just uses a lot of big words, and says nothing but blaming vague power structures. Not a very useful article.