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by Arete31415 2971 days ago
As a frequent patient, I see such incredible need for "disruption" in healthcare, both in terms of transparency/ empowering the patient, and in terms of cost suppression. However, anyone who tackles this space has to be aware that there are some huge entrenched interests who like the current inefficiencies and cost opacity very much, thank you. Breaking into this space would be 1 part technical know-how to 10 parts legal jujitsu.

As an example, look upon the bloodied corpse of the failed startup Remedy, which was actually doing something really good -- helping users find billing errors and getting money back for them on bad charges. But incredible amounts of pushback stymied them:

https://www.fastcompany.com/40483774/remedy-wanted-to-cut-pe...