The American healthcare system is a slow-moving behemoth.
The incentives to evolve, adapt, and compete - trademarks of America's most innovative industries - are all too often missing from the healthcare landscape. Byzantine, third-party payer superstructures (both public and private) dominate the industry. Funding for any given medical service or product is cobbled together from individuals, employers, insurance companies, and taxpayers. It takes an administrative army to calculate the spaghetti-like streams of funds from one place to another.
And yet...
Green shoots sprout up even in this rocky landscape. There is good news to be