Brokenness = potential energy. Anything badly broken is a dam holding back a lake of unrealized desires. A startup that can bore a hole through such a dam can liberate all that energy.
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The Lambda-school-style approach would be doing something clever with how we pay for healthcare, a financial/software innovation, maybe based on scaling up direct primary care.
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My bias is that scientific problems (how to prevent disease without difficult lifestyle changes) are easier to solve than organizational ones (how to make medical care affordable), but both types of solutions are worth trying.
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I will note that urgent care facilities seem to be a hole in the dam. They're fast, efficient, and tend to be inexpensive even for people without insurance.
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Definitely not. Hospital emergency rooms are mandated to treat everyone, and take the hit if they are not able to pay. This is leading to a trend of hospitals shutting down ERs because of how much money they are losing.
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