Re:An open letter to Jeff Bezos: You are needed to disrupt h...
by zaptheimpaler on Sunday October 01, 2017 @04:41AM
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> Health care is a huge sector of the economy, comprising close to 18% of US GDP
This is why health care is hard to change. 1/5th of the economy is in the current system. Systems that big are going to be hard and slow to change - some inertia, some corruption. The revenue of "McKesson Corporation" (one of the highest in healthcare) is single-handedly(!) 1% of US GDP. Imagine how much power those guys have. They must have shaped the entire country (laws, regulations, public opinion) to an extent with that big a share.
This is why health care is hard to change. 1/5th of the economy is in the current system. Systems that big are going to be hard and slow to change - some inertia, some corruption. The revenue of "McKesson Corporation" (one of the highest in healthcare) is single-handedly(!) 1% of US GDP. Imagine how much power those guys have. They must have shaped the entire country (laws, regulations, public opinion) to an extent with that big a share.