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When Two Giants Intersect: Healthcare Meets Fintech

a16z Podcast

a16z

Science, Innovation, Business, Entrepreneurship, Culture, Disruption, Software Eating The World, Technology

4.41.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 May 2023

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

Most people don’t need a reminder of the state of healthcare in America. But it’s not just the consumer that’s hurting. Medical debt is increasing, billions are lost in unpaid claims, hospitals are in the red, service prices can range up to 30x…. In this episode, a16z GPs Julie You and David Haber explain where the healthcare system breaks down and how the three party system — between payors, providers, and consumers — can be rethought through the lens of Fintech. Learn more about Healthcare x Fintech here: https://a16z.com/healthcare-meets-fintech/

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0:00.0

Until recently it was nearly impossible to figure out what something cost.

0:05.0

What words come to mind when you think of buying something with a click of a button?

0:11.0

How about just tapping your card to pay? Or your credit card

0:15.6

being paid off automatically or even your credit card company automatically detecting

0:19.9

fraud. When I think of his things, the words that come to mind are things like seamless, clean, easy.

0:28.0

And these are affordances that the world of FinTech have granted us.

0:33.0

Now let's do another exercise.

0:35.0

What happens when you think of the healthcare industry in America?

0:40.0

I assume that seamless is not the word popping into your head.

0:44.2

And you're actually not alone if you're conjuring up terms

0:46.7

like confusing, clunky, or even broken.

0:50.9

But what you may not know is it's not just the consumer that's hurting.

0:55.0

Every year medical debt is increasing, billions are lost in unpaid claims,

1:00.0

hospitals are in the red,

1:02.0

service prices can range up to 30 X. There must be a better way.

1:08.0

Well, in this episode, we talked to A6 and C, partners Julie U and David Haper,

1:14.7

who highlight the emerging intersection of health care and FinTech,

1:19.0

and how changes in regulation and technology may actually enable founders to pave a better future.

1:26.5

They talk about exactly where health care breaks down and how the three-party system of

1:31.5

payers, providers, and consumers can actually be re-examined through the lens

1:37.2

of FinTech. And if you'd like to learn a lot more about the fascinating intersection of

1:42.0

health care and FinTech,

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