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U.S. Healthcare is a $4T paradox.

@pmarca, @vijaypande and @julesyoo discuss why spending rises but outcomes stagnate—and how startups and tech can transform the system—on the a16z Podcast.

Some insights from their conversation + link to the full episode 👇 https://t.co/CjHi34KLsC

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You honestly probably don't even need to listen to this. It's book talking. The answer is deregulate, privatize, jam a bunch of technology into everything, ensure a16z gets paid and call it a day.

Demographic headwinds

Decades of a lack of investment in preventative health measures

Administrative bloat

Environmental toxins 

something something legal systems

and now to a degree to great of a percentage of our gdp tied up in healthcare… making change “tough”

Growing veggies for the fine folks of Southeastern Massachusetts, w/ a focus on nutrient quality. Always interested in the evolution of digital payments.  🎩 

There is a very persuasive argument I have heard that all healthcare spending is a function of $$$ and we are rich so we will always spend more. I need to go dig up the post will follow up

I'm not sure I believe that.... surely healthcare spend inversely correlates with GDP.  Preventative colonoscopy is more efficient than chemo, etc.  US GDP would be far higher if we were spending that time,  energy and money on other things.