Comments on: The Lynne Chou O’Keefe Fallacy https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2019/12/04/the-lynne-chou-okeefe-fallacy/ Everything you always wanted to know about the Health Care system. But were afraid to ask. Wed, 04 Dec 2019 21:56:56 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.3.4 By: Laura Landry https://thehealthcareblog.com/blog/2019/12/04/the-lynne-chou-okeefe-fallacy/#comment-865285 Wed, 04 Dec 2019 21:56:56 +0000 https://thehealthcareblog.com/?p=97133#comment-865285 I’ve spent the last 19 years innovating in healthcare. One of the unspoken facts that we aren’t allowed to say In public is it’s better business for large healthcare organizations to have confusion and chaos. Why? Because becoming efficient in healthcare necessarily reduces a corporations bottom line — increased efficiency means lower revenues and quarterly earnings. Which, for those publicly traded companies spells disaster for their market capitalization in this world of automated algorithms that sell off poorly performing stocks.

The reason you don’t see the Amazons of the healthcare world is because the capital comes from the middle men (insurance companies) and they would be slitting their own throats if they actually resolved the problems in the supply chain and payment processing.

But some of us who have watched the failure of problem solving in healthcare for the last 2 to 3 decades have seen and have learned. I suspect you will see the kind of disruption in healthcare in the next 2 years that might not otherwise been seen, if the incumbents had matched their actions to their words.

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