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by Taek 1874 days ago
Why is there no innovation in healthcare?

Because better technology won't get the entrepreneur a satisfying reward.

6 comments

Because you can literally make millions of more guaranteed dollars if you just go work at Facebook or Google in easier problems serving ads.
Very costly and lots of regulations, big consequences for failing. If a SaaS product has a bug, worst case scenario, someone loses money, if someone messes up in healthcare, a person might die.
Lots of innovation but things like clinical trials are very expensive. How could we get safe medical progress with less expenses?
Regulation has a way of keeping out innovative founders who would rather add value in newer, unregulated fields.
No reason to innovate insurance pays the same regardless
There must be some innovation in healthcare, we were delivered a safe effective vaccine to a new virus in about a year.
We also had the entire worlds resources to do it.