[taylodl]

I don't know what country you're talking about but in the United States, which is where I live, our biggest obstacle to healthcare is the fact that patients have to utilize insurance companies to receive healthcare and the insurance companies are incentivized to deny that healthcare so they can increase their profits. That's not a problem building some apps is going to solve.

[tocs3]

I agree. I think the Affordable Care Act mostly just redefined "health care" as "health insurance". Now if you have health insurance you, by definition, have health care. It has helped millions get health insurance (and done some good) but done little to improve the actual care.

[dogtorwoof]

CA/USA.

There are some startups in the health insurance space. What they seem to do is just make it easier to buy/cancel health insurance, all within an app. Some have been quite successful. Some are also trying to bundle in their own health care provision inside the app (like telehealth, virtual mental health, etc), so in a sense getting more people access to care.

It depends on what you think the goal of an app could be. If we can build an app that 1) makes people healthier or 2) actually replaces nurses/doctors/pharmacists, I do think you'll be better off with a better healthcare system.