Arthur Hanson
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Us medical is the greatest threat to the United States based on the Pentagon assessment that debt is the greatest threat to the US. Just the Medicare debt stands at 27 trillion (usdebtclock.org) and growing fast, while our total GDP is 17 trillion. The US medical mind set has been to continuously maximize costs, while minimizing results. We currently rank 37th in quality of medical while ranking by far the highest in cost. Inefficiency, waste, massive advertising, poor financial structures, low incentive for cost control by all parties including patients combined with perverse financial structures that push cost through the roof threaten the very existence of the US and its population. This liability doesn't count the massive drain of high costs on our families, companies and institutions that go beyond this debt. Medical costs are also a major part of all government and company budgets and retirement plans. Medical in the US currently consumes 19 cents of every single dollar and this doesn't even count the ever increasing debt accruing to local government and private retirement plans.
It is time for Silicon Valley and its culture of ever faster innovation, increasing functionality at rapidly declining costs to apply this ethos to our totally failing medical system. It's not science, it's a severe cultural change that US medical needs and the best answer is right in Silicon Valley. For this to happen government will have to cooperate, probably out of absolute desperation, to totally change the regulatory and financial structure of medical while also infusing the educational system with instruction on health, fitness and diet. Personal responsibility and a transparent, competitive cost structure will also have to play a part.
The most important part of this though will be infusing the current totally failing medical establishment with a whole new culture built on the ethos of Silicon Valley. No other culture in the world has mastered using an array of advanced technologies across a broad spectrum of technologies to provide solutions on massive scales, even world wide. The opportunities in this for advancing almost everything are literally limitless. This represents not only a US opportunity, but a world wide opportunity for the tech/semi sector of almost unprecedented proportions as the world gets wealthier and people want to be their best.
Vinod Khosla has commented on this extensively about how most of what is done in medical can be automated including eliminating the need for 80% of the doctors. Much of medical could be automated and made massively more efficient and cost effective. This will be fought every step of the way by an industry that has inflated costs in every way possible at every stage and step. This is not just my opinion, but the assessment of many and has been for many, many years. This I hope will be the next wave of innovation in not just technology, but culture that Silicon Valley will infuse on every layer and corner of US medical. Our survival as a country depends on it. The Silicon Valley culture has the power to save us from our greatest threat when even the military is failing at restraining medical costs miserably. It is time for Silicon Valley to step up to the plate and government to get out of the way of the reforms, technologies and financial structural changes that are needed to make this happen. Outright corruption and self interest play a serious role in this problem and will also have to be defeated. All of the Silicon Valley culture will have to play a part in this confrontation, including social media. This will be a civil war of regulations, special interests, government inertia and new technologies and it will be a WAR.
Thoughts, discourse, comments, observations and even opposing views wanted and solicited this critical issue.
Vinod Khosla says technology will replace 8 percent of doctors -- sparks indignation | VentureBeat | Cloud | by Matt Marshall
U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time
Mullen: Debt is top national security threat - CNN.com
World Health Organization’s Ranking of the World’s Health Systems | thepatientfactor.com
It is time for Silicon Valley and its culture of ever faster innovation, increasing functionality at rapidly declining costs to apply this ethos to our totally failing medical system. It's not science, it's a severe cultural change that US medical needs and the best answer is right in Silicon Valley. For this to happen government will have to cooperate, probably out of absolute desperation, to totally change the regulatory and financial structure of medical while also infusing the educational system with instruction on health, fitness and diet. Personal responsibility and a transparent, competitive cost structure will also have to play a part.
The most important part of this though will be infusing the current totally failing medical establishment with a whole new culture built on the ethos of Silicon Valley. No other culture in the world has mastered using an array of advanced technologies across a broad spectrum of technologies to provide solutions on massive scales, even world wide. The opportunities in this for advancing almost everything are literally limitless. This represents not only a US opportunity, but a world wide opportunity for the tech/semi sector of almost unprecedented proportions as the world gets wealthier and people want to be their best.
Vinod Khosla has commented on this extensively about how most of what is done in medical can be automated including eliminating the need for 80% of the doctors. Much of medical could be automated and made massively more efficient and cost effective. This will be fought every step of the way by an industry that has inflated costs in every way possible at every stage and step. This is not just my opinion, but the assessment of many and has been for many, many years. This I hope will be the next wave of innovation in not just technology, but culture that Silicon Valley will infuse on every layer and corner of US medical. Our survival as a country depends on it. The Silicon Valley culture has the power to save us from our greatest threat when even the military is failing at restraining medical costs miserably. It is time for Silicon Valley to step up to the plate and government to get out of the way of the reforms, technologies and financial structural changes that are needed to make this happen. Outright corruption and self interest play a serious role in this problem and will also have to be defeated. All of the Silicon Valley culture will have to play a part in this confrontation, including social media. This will be a civil war of regulations, special interests, government inertia and new technologies and it will be a WAR.
Thoughts, discourse, comments, observations and even opposing views wanted and solicited this critical issue.
Vinod Khosla says technology will replace 8 percent of doctors -- sparks indignation | VentureBeat | Cloud | by Matt Marshall
U.S. National Debt Clock : Real Time
Mullen: Debt is top national security threat - CNN.com
World Health Organization’s Ranking of the World’s Health Systems | thepatientfactor.com
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