US healthcare

also referred to as: u.s. healthcare

4 statements across 3 episodes · 1 bullish · 2 bearish · 3 people on the record · first statement Sep 23, 2015 by Bob Kocher · across every show →

Everything said about US healthcare, oldest first

Sep 23, 2015 negative
Assertion Supported
Kocher: U.S. healthcare has nine administrators for every physician
“So one of the amazing statistics about U.S. Healthcare is that for every doctor there are 16 FTEs walking around behind that doctor doing stuff, and of that 16, nine of them are administrators. That ratio has gone from one to 10 to one to 16 in the last 20 yea…”
Bob Kocher Sep 23, 2015 ▶ 11:26 20 VC 074: The Future of Healthcare with Bob Kocher, Partner @ Venrock
Apr 5, 2024 bullish
Insight
Mario Schlosser: Replacing 40-year-old COBOL healthcare software is a massive opportunity
“There's an incredible amount of very pedestrian, simple workflows and ideas where some amount of companies make a ton of money in U.S. Healthcare and replacing their forty-year-old COBOL codebase With what you just said just a good startup that makes money ear…”
Mario Schlosser Apr 5, 2024 ▶ 8:22 Mario Schlosser: "How to Deal with a 94% Decline in Market Cap" | E1136 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Apr 5, 2024 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Mario Schlosser: Grand disruptive healthcare bets have largely failed
“The big ideas and the big disruptive approaches to just changing this Fortune dollar system have not worked all that well for the most part. Nobody's completely reinvented primary care.”
Mario Schlosser Apr 5, 2024 ▶ 8:11 Mario Schlosser: "How to Deal with a 94% Decline in Market Cap" | E1136 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Dec 31, 2025
Assertion Partly supported
Fitzpatrick: US healthcare spend is 2.5x higher per capita than Germany
“We spend 14,000 14,000 per capita per year on patients in the U.S. So that, that's like a rough spend. That's two to three, two and a half to three, like Germany and Canada spent as an example.”
Matt Fitzpatrick Dec 31, 2025 ▶ 1:23:05 Matt Fitzpatrick: Who Wins the Data Labelling Race & Why Al Needs Forward-Deployed Engineers · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
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