Ballinger: Only half of Americans have a primary care physician
Brandon Ballinger · a16z Podcast | Putting AI in Medicine, in Practice · Jan 2, 2019 · at 8:58
Brandon Ballinger outlines systemic healthcare coverage gaps in the US when discussing the potential value of continuous remote health monitoring.
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“And if you look at that in aggregate, about half of people in the U.S. Have a primary care physician at all, which seems astonishingly low, but that's kind of the fact.”
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