You don't have to choose between billionaires and universal healthcare. You can have a society with both. You know, these societies have high tax rates and produce incredible companies that go on to make billions of dollars and trillion dollar market caps and they have billionaires. The two are not mutually exclusive in America.
Like tens of millions of people, Stephen Dubner thought he had a penicillin allergy. Like the vast majority, he didn't. This misdiagnosis costs billions of dollars and causes serious health problems, so why hasn't it been fixed?
We practice sick care rather than health care. And even when we practice health care, if you think about it, it's a pretty archaic process. You will travel to a physician's office that really hasn't changed much in the last 40 years.
financial incentives, professional identity, and language itself ("bone-on-bone," "the widowmaker") conspire to push patients toward interventions that can do more harm than good.
if you give every clinician an AI partner that handles the documentation, form filling, evidence search, and routine follow up communication, you effectively add another pair of hands to every consult without hiring another doctor.
Well, everybody's realizing that if you go through a PBM, you lose. And when you look at direct-to-patient, whether it's through us, whether it's Trump RX, whether it's Lilly, whether it's Novo Nordisk, whether it's um BMS with Eliquis, whatever it may be, they're doing this to so so that they don't have to deal with the PBMs.
It's really important to have places and physicians and institutions that can meet them where they are. And it's not that I didn't feel like I was doing that in my own office space. It's just that I felt like I could do it better.
