Where is our Visionary Healthcare Leadership?

Healthcare doesn’t have any Elon Musks…or does it? Searching, like wise men for the baby Jesus, for a visionary in healthcare.

With the acquisition of One Medical by Amazon, whether the public knows it or not, a massive change is taking place in the tech-enabled and capital-inefficient healthcare landscape. The reason we don’t understand what the future of healthcare should look like is that we don’t have visionary leaders to explain it to us. There is no one championing the standard that we should follow. We don’t even know what that flag would look like. We are waiting for our Elon Musk for Healthcare (EMH for short). I’ll set the stage, make my case for Elon the Visionary, and describe what EMH will look like when she arrives.

Lo, and the three wise health tech influencers departed from their Substacks and a16z podcast guest spots. Their ability to promptly bring valuable balms was hampered by supply-chain issues! Rebates from their GPOs came under FTC scrutiny. PBM safe-harbor provisions also came under scrutiny from The Regulators. Such were these difficult times in which EMH will be revealed.

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