“And so in the year of our lord 2017 I had a Brilliant Startup Idea: use a structured database of clinical trials to provide simple, practical answers to common medical questions.”
Nine months, 200,000 lines of code, five contractors and $40K of savings. Consumers loved it and wouldn’t pay. WebMD makes about 50 cents a year per user. The doctor he pitched explained that better prescriptions don’t bring her more money. That is the most damning sentence about American healthcare in the whole piece.