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A comment on Ask HN: What are the least competitive consumer and enterprise markets?.

Re:Ask HN: What are the least competitive consumer and enter... by faangFar on Thursday August 06, 2020 @04:05PM (#24074888)
Medical care.

You want medicine, you need to pay someone who's part of the Physician cartel, a pharmacy, a pharmacist, and whoever has the patent.

With computers and science you often need 0 of these except the manufacturer of the drug.

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Re:Ask HN: What are the least competitive consumer and enter... by wtracy on Thursday August 06, 2020 @10:50PM (#24077503)
At least one person tried this and found it to be a very hard sell: https://tjcx.me/posts/i-wasted-40k-on-a-fantastic-startup-id...
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Re:Ask HN: What are the least competitive consumer and enter... by James_Henry on Thursday August 06, 2020 @06:48PM (#24076240)
Personalized medical research, n-of-one therapies that you can (with help) self-administer, and other types of, perhaps at this point, "gray-market" medical care could be profitable.
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