Shah: US health plans avoid prevention because Americans change jobs triennially
Munjal Shah · Hippocratic AI’s Munjal Shah: Building the First Safety-First LLM for Healthcare · Aug 23, 2023 · at 13:16
Munjal Shah, CEO of Hippocratic AI, explains the economic structural barrier to preventative care investment in US health insurance.
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“It turns out the average person in the US changes healthcare plans every three years because they change jobs every three years. And so the healthcare plan will bear the cost to do the prevention, but won't basically the benefit because actually most of the benefit will accrue to Medicare once you're over 65.”
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