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Wolf: Curing all cancer would only extend American lifespans by three years
“But the reality is, if you cure all cancer, you extend American's lifespan by three years.”
Wolf: 90% of healthcare will soon be delivered at home via phones
“90% of health care is going to be delivered probably from your phone and in your home.”
Wolf: Healthcare will leapfrog traditional software and go straight to AI
“We think we're about to have a similar moment in healthcare where we're gonna leapfrog over traditional software and we're gonna go straight from human services to AI.”
Wolf: AI health companions will soon detect illnesses long before doctors can
“If you marry all of those things, like, we're gonna have These companions very soon that are providing actually helpful health tips and monitoring us and telling us when something might go wrong far before we know something's going wrong or far before a doctor…”
Daisy Wolf: Nearly one in seven Americans uses a GLP-1 drug
“Nearly one in seven Americans is taking a GLP one drug. 20% have tried them.”
Wolf: Only one of the top 100 public software companies is in healthcare
“Of the hundred largest public software companies, one is a healthcare and life science company”
Wolf: Future wearables will predict illnesses before patients feel any symptoms
“These wearable devices are gonna predict that you're getting sick before you even start feeling symptoms and know.”
Wolf: Consumer health spending shifted beyond vanity drugs to proactive healthcare
“Like, as an investor, we used to kind of think people were only willing to spend on what we'd, like, call sex or vanity drugs, like Propecia, Viagra, and that has totally changed. In the last five years, and people are really interested in their health.”
Wolf: 88% of Americans are metabolically unhealthy
“88% of Americans are metabolically unhealthy. Half of people don't go to the PCP, half of medications that are prescribed are never taken”
Wolf: The US spends 20% of GDP on healthcare for worse outcomes
“We spend, you know, it's 20% of our GDP, which is like double that of any other developing country, developed country, and we have worse outcomes, and we're all suffering.”
Wolf: Consumer wearable devices accurately predicted the onset of COVID-19
“A lot of these devices could predict exactly COVID coming on”
Wolf: Health insurance will eventually cover consumer wearable health devices
“Today most of these products are consumer purchased, and I think there's totally a world where insurance starts to cover a lot of wearable devices and things today that we think of as consumer products, and we definitely see that.”