US healthcare system

4 statements across 4 episodes · 0 bullish · 3 bearish · 4 people on the record · first statement Sep 23, 2015 by Bob Kocher · across every show →

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Sep 23, 2015 negative
Assertion Supported
Kocher: US healthcare system contains 30% waste
“The US healthcare system has 30% waste highly erratic outcomes, and unnecessary complexity,”
Bob Kocher Sep 23, 2015 ▶ 13:04 20 VC 074: The Future of Healthcare with Bob Kocher, Partner @ Venrock
Sep 22, 2017 bearish
What-if
Schlosser: Matching foreign healthcare efficiency would save the US $1 trillion annually
“If we became merely as efficient as, say, Switzerland is, or Germany is, or Japan is in delivering healthcare, we would save a trillion dollars a year In the US.”
Mario Schlosser Sep 22, 2017 ▶ 7:50 20VC: Raising Over $700m From The World's Best Investors, How To Innovate In Highly Regulated Markets & The 3 Superpowers of Insurance Companies with Mario Schlosser, Founder & CEO @ Oscar
May 16, 2026 negative
Insight
US healthcare stakeholders are fundamentally misaligned with patients
“And that's what healthcare is in the United States. It's providers, health systems, pointing guns and getting pointed at by insurance companies. And then there's also life sciences companies. And those three stakeholders in some way, shape or form are misalign…”
Shiv Rao May 16, 2026 ▶ 1:06:49 The Five Year Desert to Product Market Fit & a $5.3BN Valuation with Shiv Rao, Founder @ Abridge · 20VC with Harry Stebbings
Jul 18, 2026 neutral
Insight
Payers Ultimately Drive All Behavior In US Healthcare
“Everything sort of ends up coming back to the payer. Like, the payer is the one that drives behavior in the US healthcare system. If you are providing the dollars, people will go where the dollars aren't. If you say I'm going to pay for this service, people wi…”
Fred Turner Jul 18, 2026 ▶ 37:43 We Built Our Own Salesforce in Months. Here's Why We're Cancelling the $600K Contract | Curative CEO
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