https://minutesof.com/on/healthcare/ Everyone on the record about healthcare: 24 verbatim quotes from 3 people, December 2012 to August 2026, in one chronology, each with a timestamp and a… en Sun, 30 Aug 2026 22:33:00 +0000 https://minutesof.com/q/1d5135d5-0a13-40ed-99be-4e4d5ed44711/ https://minutesof.com/q/1d5135d5-0a13-40ed-99be-4e4d5ed44711/ “You see people saying that they're providing health care services, collecting a whole lot of money, but not doing a single bit of health care. It's got to stop.” — JD Vance, Forbes Breaking News Mon, 24 Aug 2026 23:45:09 +0000 healthcare https://minutesof.com/q/786879ae-22eb-4a2f-8abc-c56f6b5819f0/ https://minutesof.com/q/786879ae-22eb-4a2f-8abc-c56f6b5819f0/ “it's a lot of health care fraud. You think about this, the two big federal programs, Medicaid and Medicare.” — JD Vance, Forbes Breaking News Mon, 24 Aug 2026 23:45:09 +0000 healthcare https://minutesof.com/q/2298d6b7-6c4d-497f-a116-2fe7befb18fc/ https://minutesof.com/q/2298d6b7-6c4d-497f-a116-2fe7befb18fc/ “We only had two manufacturers, and they charged, like, $12 a test, so 10 x higher.” — Bill Gurley, Tom Bilyeu Thu, 23 Apr 2026 13:01:05 +0000 healthcare https://minutesof.com/q/f5741cb6-70f3-4781-9b64-e6ab061e6386/ https://minutesof.com/q/f5741cb6-70f3-4781-9b64-e6ab061e6386/ “I think there was someone at TED talking about the fact that the number of radiologists has gone up, not down, despite the fact that you can read these things so much faster.” — Bill Gurley, Forbes Tue, 21 Apr 2026 23:11:11 +0000 healthcare https://minutesof.com/q/3eef95fa-429e-443d-8120-df5ebce68c74/ https://minutesof.com/q/3eef95fa-429e-443d-8120-df5ebce68c74/ “AI has already proved it can do it a hell of a lot better than the human being in in many, many cases, not every case.” — Sir Richard Dearlove, One Decision Thu, 25 Sep 2025 04:54:40 +0000 healthcare https://minutesof.com/q/1fe9bd9a-dbc8-4271-af01-69814b89c715/ https://minutesof.com/q/1fe9bd9a-dbc8-4271-af01-69814b89c715/ “People talk about the military industrial complex. We may have created a health care industrial complex that really can't stop maximizing profitability and not focus necessarily on the lowest cost, best, most preventative process.” — Bill Gurley, Bg2 Pod Mon, 06 Jan 2025 21:47:42 +0000 healthcare https://minutesof.com/q/c4135138-08e1-41c5-b34f-f68e1afb805b/ https://minutesof.com/q/c4135138-08e1-41c5-b34f-f68e1afb805b/ “And we may have created a people talk about the military industrial complex, we may have created a healthcare industrial complex that really can't stop maximizing profitability and different ways of making money not focus necessarily on the lowest cost, best, most preventative process.” — Bill Gurley, BG2 Pod Thu, 11 Jul 2024 20:24:05 +0000 healthcare https://minutesof.com/q/acadbdb8-ed97-46d0-a57a-77bf86c9732b/ https://minutesof.com/q/acadbdb8-ed97-46d0-a57a-77bf86c9732b/ “over 90% of NIH grants go towards things that are potentially monetizable, so either a product or a drug, and that the NIH is less interested in funding things that might be just preventative behavior, like behavioral things, like what you eat or your diet or things that don't lead to monetization.” — Bill Gurley, BG2 Pod Thu, 11 Jul 2024 20:24:05 +0000 healthcare https://minutesof.com/q/2f6d9efd-07a4-41e2-97c4-e8290a8d6361/ https://minutesof.com/q/2f6d9efd-07a4-41e2-97c4-e8290a8d6361/ “And then and then some of them end up in a place where they're actually reinforcing the bad stuff, you know, and making it worse.” — Bill Gurley, Qualia Wed, 01 May 2024 17:09:06 +0000 healthcare https://minutesof.com/q/f5baaa34-9dc1-4a08-ab59-ed5559dc0f5c/ https://minutesof.com/q/f5baaa34-9dc1-4a08-ab59-ed5559dc0f5c/ “Here they are on the right, 96 different vendors that they ok'd. And as a result, in the German market, you could buy five tests for $3.75 or €75 cents a test.” — Bill Gurley, All-In Podcast Sat, 16 Sep 2023 01:49:57 +0000 healthcare https://minutesof.com/q/8e8852af-edde-466f-a847-b772017c2257/ https://minutesof.com/q/8e8852af-edde-466f-a847-b772017c2257/ “Doctors would receive $44,000 each if they bought software. $38,000,000,000. This is true. You can look it up. I'm not making it up. $44,000, give it to a doctor, implement some software.” — Bill Gurley, All-In Podcast Sat, 16 Sep 2023 01:49:57 +0000 healthcare https://minutesof.com/q/e79bc668-dfba-4436-bdb3-c0e37fa21a66/ https://minutesof.com/q/e79bc668-dfba-4436-bdb3-c0e37fa21a66/ “I have to assume she helped encourage this. Doctors would receive $44,000 each if they bought software. $38,000,000,000. This is true. You can look it up.” — Bill Gurley, All-In Podcast Sat, 16 Sep 2023 01:49:57 +0000 healthcare https://minutesof.com/q/cd031a83-117d-4a17-9b0b-97597213caa7/ https://minutesof.com/q/cd031a83-117d-4a17-9b0b-97597213caa7/ “They came up with a brilliant idea. I have to assume she helped encourage this. Doctors would receive $44,000 each if they bought software. $38,000,000,000.” — Bill Gurley, All-In Podcast Sat, 16 Sep 2023 01:49:57 +0000 healthcare https://minutesof.com/q/ca17b810-93b5-478a-8c30-99b0ce030516/ https://minutesof.com/q/ca17b810-93b5-478a-8c30-99b0ce030516/ “of my favorite examples, the Obama administration came up with this program where they spent $44,000,000,000 paying doctors to implement EHR systems.” — Bill Gurley, Tim Ferriss Thu, 26 Jan 2023 19:45:00 +0000 healthcare https://minutesof.com/q/9a9943e8-12c5-4f8e-b1ed-627e337b5305/ https://minutesof.com/q/9a9943e8-12c5-4f8e-b1ed-627e337b5305/ “It's extremely dangerous because the the laws of most, marketplaces doesn't exist. You know, there's not a simple gravity. There's forces in five different directions.” — Bill Gurley, CNBC Fri, 17 Nov 2017 18:49:28 +0000 healthcare https://minutesof.com/q/1d20d24a-3406-4520-80a8-3ae6099e3062/ https://minutesof.com/q/1d20d24a-3406-4520-80a8-3ae6099e3062/ “what happens is capitalism and democracy evolve over time, especially in The US federal system. The most regulated industries become the ones that are least capitalistic. And so finance, telecom, healthcare are completely,” — Bill Gurley, This Week in Startups Fri, 07 Apr 2017 23:27:51 +0000 healthcare https://minutesof.com/q/ddbaad8f-13ad-4961-9f05-c065819b0335/ https://minutesof.com/q/ddbaad8f-13ad-4961-9f05-c065819b0335/ “Spends 17% of GDP on healthcare and Singapore spends 1.7. So, it's a 10x delta and they have relatively reputable healthcare system. And the key thing they do is they make everyone a payer.” — Bill Gurley, SXSW Fri, 20 Mar 2015 17:13:49 +0000 healthcare https://minutesof.com/q/d6af8d12-4327-4afd-ad5a-b8f5c49d08f9/ https://minutesof.com/q/d6af8d12-4327-4afd-ad5a-b8f5c49d08f9/ “The U. S. Spends 17% of GDP on healthcare and Singapore spends 1.7. So, it's a 10x delta and they have relatively reputable healthcare system.” — Bill Gurley, SXSW Fri, 20 Mar 2015 17:13:49 +0000 healthcare https://minutesof.com/q/33d4e8d2-3583-4eb8-93b5-8eb1154b163e/ https://minutesof.com/q/33d4e8d2-3583-4eb8-93b5-8eb1154b163e/ “So, our government has paid $29,000,000,000 for doctors to implement software that they weren't naturally implementing on their own.” — Bill Gurley, SXSW Fri, 20 Mar 2015 17:13:49 +0000 healthcare https://minutesof.com/q/b982457f-82a9-4f00-b1f2-269c1d35419e/ https://minutesof.com/q/b982457f-82a9-4f00-b1f2-269c1d35419e/ “So, the payments for these incentive programs, because I just looked it up to get the recent update, dollars 29,000,000,000. So, our government has paid $29,000,000,000 for doctors to implement software” — Bill Gurley, SXSW Fri, 20 Mar 2015 17:13:49 +0000 healthcare https://minutesof.com/q/87fdb737-6828-4bb0-9a05-84083de83b80/ https://minutesof.com/q/87fdb737-6828-4bb0-9a05-84083de83b80/ “So, the payments for these incentive programs, because I just looked it up to get the recent update, dollars 29,000,000,000.” — Bill Gurley, SXSW Fri, 20 Mar 2015 17:13:49 +0000 healthcare https://minutesof.com/q/51dcfdff-ca44-46db-8dd6-2e6bc57b6b5e/ https://minutesof.com/q/51dcfdff-ca44-46db-8dd6-2e6bc57b6b5e/ “So, it'd basically be like telling a construction company if you put in NetSuite, you get paid $50.” — Bill Gurley, SXSW Fri, 20 Mar 2015 17:13:49 +0000 healthcare https://minutesof.com/q/d088e949-e8d4-4f7f-81c9-f2c929a5aba0/ https://minutesof.com/q/d088e949-e8d4-4f7f-81c9-f2c929a5aba0/ “So in 2009, when the government passed the Reinvestment Act to try and get America going or whatever it was called, they put in place a program where a doctor is paid, believe this or not, paid $44,000 to implement EHR, electronic health records.” — Bill Gurley, SXSW Fri, 20 Mar 2015 17:13:49 +0000 healthcare https://minutesof.com/q/f04e7919-9587-4edb-adfb-0154a4ce2937/ https://minutesof.com/q/f04e7919-9587-4edb-adfb-0154a4ce2937/ “the large medical groups have been building out these huge platforms of MRI centers and labs and x-ray, and they're increasingly inviting general practitioners to live under their umbrella, and as that happens, the number of independent general practitioners is dropping as a percentage of all doctors, and that's really bad for innovation.” — Bill Gurley, SVTV Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:59:38 +0000 healthcare