Comment by arbuge
1 year ago
It does sound strange to me. Other countries have much lower healthcare costs per capita than the US. They achieved that without any need for groundbreaking VC-funded startups. Perhaps there are some lower-hanging fruits here.
The US has a lot higher labor costs than nost other countries and healthcare is labor intensive, per capita costs should be higher ib the US.
OTOH, US costs are higher than that would explain, much higher than most other countries on a share of GDP basis even. So, yeah, there's some low hanging fruit, much of it in public policy around healthcare financing.