Butte: Healthcare inefficiency is driven by systemic resistance, not friction
Atul Butte · a16z Podcast | Breaking Into Bio · Jan 2, 2019 · at 33:36
Atul Butte warns engineering founders against misinterpreting healthcare inefficiencies as simple friction, emphasizing that incumbents deliberately protect their revenue streams.
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“Friction is the wrong model for what needs to get fixed in the healthcare system. It's resistance. Somebody makes every dollar in the 3.2 trillion dollar economy here. They like making that money.”
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