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First question.

Hey Scott, this is Peter from Seattle.

You've written about scarcity and you've previously written about health care.

Curious what you think is going to happen when these things combine.

We've got a shortage of primary care providers and health care is kind of limited by certain

legislation and insurance costs.

But what do you think is going to happen there?

Be really interested in your thoughts.

Hey Peter from Seattle, it sounds like you're in the health care industry and you might

even have some views here.

But anytime there is an industry as large as health care begins to segment from a marketing

standpoint and that is there are essentially VIP groups that have emerged, concierge medicine

all over the United States.

There's even a pretty thick layer of private medicine in the UK where I would say probably

the top deathile of income earners opt out of NHS and go private if you will.

Some people would argue that that relieves some of the taxation on resources of the NHS

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