[spotman]

I agree with your sentiment, but another piece of the puzzle here should be considered:

Playing fast and loose with health care, that may be key to determining whether you have some life-threatening disease, is a big deal.

This is not like taking some VC money for the next social network, and having no chops to pull it off. Peoples lives could come into play.

[rdtsc]

Exactly. If Elon wants to spend his billions building spaceships, as long as they don't routinely fall and kill people, then everyone will cheer for him and that's fair. Screwing up people's blood tests and then seemingly lying about, is a whole different thing.