[fragmede]

Not to be a capitalist about it, but given the US health care system, and the fact that there's a diagnostic test for it, that sounds like a business opportunity. Setup an intake website where the customer, err, patient, fills out their information, submits their insurance, and answers a questionnaire, and then the teledoc web portal system gives them lab work to do. Charge the patients for the privilege, and also charge the doctors to use this screening process.

[Aurornis]

> and also charge the doctors to use this screening process.

Why would a doctor pay another service to order labs for them?

Sadly there are a lot of clinics popping up to serve the internet self-diagnosers, but not in the way you're talking about. They're built around a single enterprising doctor who either believes the disease is undetectable by normal tests, or who is aware that they're stringing patients along but likes the money. If someone opens a specialty clinic for an internet-popular disorder, they have a perpetual line of patients who will gladly pay for a doctor to tell them what they want to hear.

[Obscurity4340]

I dunno, LifeBAC's a good example of something thats not really in line with what you mentioned but has good reason to exist given the typical relationship most people have with their drs

[dzhiurgis]

> Not to be a capitalist about it, but given the US health care system

Whats that supposed to mean? Most countries have private healthcare too. Sometimes it is as popular as public i.e. Australia 45% is private vs 55% in US.

[russelg]

In Australia, this is mostly because there are tax implications for not being a private health care member past the age of 31 when you earn over a certain amount. Our public system is great (and actually exists).

[tacticus]

> In Australia, this is mostly because

it's an attempt to starve funding from the public system. (Howard was responsible for destroying the first universal healthcare system in australia before the later second attempt)

The private hospitals specialise in elective uncomplicated day ops because the returns from the medicare payment are better than complicated cases that get the same fixed payment. It's also why they transfer anything slightly complicated into public hospitals.

[fragmede]

It seems ghoulish to me to try to profit off someone's suffering, but I'm not in the industry and we all need to eat.