Why It’s Almost Impossible to Build a Health Care Startup That Works

And why you should try anyway

Nikhil Krishnan
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11 min readJul 29, 2020

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A US dollar bill rolled up in a prescription bottle.
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We all know the U.S. health care system is bad. But why hasn’t any business come in and fixed it? The market is massive, inefficient, and extremely wasteful. Some estimates suggest wasteful spending accounts for between $760 billion and $935 billion annually, from a combination of unnecessary…

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Nikhil Krishnan
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