alt Hacker NewsI saw Jim Clark (of SGI and Netscape fame) talk one time about his new healthcare startup (Healtheon). He said something insightful that captures a lot of why it's hard to get things done in general: one person's inefficiency is someone else's bottom line.
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root_axis • today at 3:17 AM
And someone else's bottom line is also the wages of friends and neighbors.
Last I heard healthcare is like the only employment sector that's seeing real growth right now.
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The flip side of Bezos' "your margin is my opportunity". But that's for competitive markets, not for heavily regulated multi-party setups with minimal competition. That's the real wonder of American healthcare, as it manages to neither be a good market, nor to have regulator mercilessly going after the largest profit centers. Near the worst of both worlds.