What I think would be more beneficial would be not only healthcare - but the health insurance market.
We need to commoditize hospital services while paying a great wage to nursing and physician staff and make for an easy payment protection plan.
This was ostensibly the basis for the health ins industry - but when they realized they could easily get evil/greedy they farked everyone.
The better model would be ubiquitous clinics with hospital services deployed via low-cost modular modality units. Think "MRI in a shipping crate" "OR in a shipping crate" "Davinci OR in a shipping crate with recovery attached - lower cost nursing staff on-site but the actual surgeon is remote from their home in Boston/SF/Dallas"
You build these modality modules like legos. You then take these legos and deploy them to places like walmart, target and malls.
You pay a set scale for physicians and offer STOCK and recruit med staff students to be lead by higher paid leaders who are the first generations mentors.
You then provide an insurance plan through this service that is a set stepped payment scale based on income that is much more competitive than modern insurance.
You have a fixed fee, transparent schedule of services.
So, you have a known cost for the modules. You have a set fee schedule, pay schedule and premiums schedule.
Make all this COMPLETELY transparent and partner with walmart, target and other entities to place these modular, full service, clinics.
The common questions that will come up will be: how do you provide ICU, ER, Acute etc.. care.
These services could be provided - but the truth is that this overall model is needed to disrupt the current failure of the US health system.
We are building multi-billion-dollar hospitals EVERYEWHERE - but have you seen a reduction in cost of services ANYEWHERE?
There is a clear way to disrupt US health, but it takes a multi billion dollar commitment over 10 years.
This is the type of problem Elon is perfect to get moving...
(Disclaimer: I design hospital systems, consult on healthcare operations for opening these new facilities and do technology consulting for the design of very large hospital networks - although at the very moment I am focusing on enterprise infrastructure consulting.)
What I think would be more beneficial would be not only healthcare - but the health insurance market.
We need to commoditize hospital services while paying a great wage to nursing and physician staff and make for an easy payment protection plan.
This was ostensibly the basis for the health ins industry - but when they realized they could easily get evil/greedy they farked everyone.
The better model would be ubiquitous clinics with hospital services deployed via low-cost modular modality units. Think "MRI in a shipping crate" "OR in a shipping crate" "Davinci OR in a shipping crate with recovery attached - lower cost nursing staff on-site but the actual surgeon is remote from their home in Boston/SF/Dallas"
You build these modality modules like legos. You then take these legos and deploy them to places like walmart, target and malls.
You pay a set scale for physicians and offer STOCK and recruit med staff students to be lead by higher paid leaders who are the first generations mentors.
You then provide an insurance plan through this service that is a set stepped payment scale based on income that is much more competitive than modern insurance.
You have a fixed fee, transparent schedule of services.
So, you have a known cost for the modules. You have a set fee schedule, pay schedule and premiums schedule.
Make all this COMPLETELY transparent and partner with walmart, target and other entities to place these modular, full service, clinics.
The common questions that will come up will be: how do you provide ICU, ER, Acute etc.. care.
These services could be provided - but the truth is that this overall model is needed to disrupt the current failure of the US health system.
We are building multi-billion-dollar hospitals EVERYEWHERE - but have you seen a reduction in cost of services ANYEWHERE?
There is a clear way to disrupt US health, but it takes a multi billion dollar commitment over 10 years.
This is the type of problem Elon is perfect to get moving...
(Disclaimer: I design hospital systems, consult on healthcare operations for opening these new facilities and do technology consulting for the design of very large hospital networks - although at the very moment I am focusing on enterprise infrastructure consulting.)