Healthcare Is HILARIOUS! August 9 2018 Venture Valkyrie Lisa Suennen

This week you’re gonna hear from Lisa Suennen, Venture Valkyrie herself - she shares her thoughts on blockchain in tech (whiz bang buzzword alert!), on price transparency, and how tech continues to transform the healthcare landscape … slowly.

The combination of technology and humanity will indeed be the winner. That’s what I’m working toward, and what Lisa Suennen is devoting her time, talent, and treasure to on the daily. If you wanna stay woke on separating shiny objects in healthcare technology from the real tech-human acceleration machines, follow Venture Valkyrie’s “what would Lisa Suennen say?” insight factory, also known as her blog. She’s got a podcast, too - Tech Tonics, which she co-hosts with David Shaywitz.

Lisa Suennen on Twitter
https://venturevalkyrie.com/
https://twitter.com/VentureValkyrie
https://venturevalkyrie.com/
https://venturevalkyrie.com/the-tech-tonics-podcast/

Venture Valkyrie press clips:
https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/lists/female-health-it-leaders-to-know.html
https://www.statnews.com/2018/06/06/lisa-suennen-health-care-gatekeeper/

Mentions:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/16/upshot/costs-health-care-us.html
https://medium.com/@mightycasey/selling-my-health-data-cut-me-in-bitches-447880201004
https://evidation.com/
https://allofus.nih.gov/
Corrie Painter, Broad: https://www.broadinstitute.org/bios/corrie-painter
Metastatic Breast Cancer Project: https://www.mbcproject.org/
Angiosarcoma Project: https://ascproject.org/home
Prostate Cancer Project: https://mpcproject.org/home

THIS WEEK’S RANT!

Speaking of spending like drunken sailors on healthcare, this week saw some hilarious fist fights over a report from the Mercatus Center, a libertarian think tank at George Mason University, that pearl-clutched over Bernie Sanders’ Medicare for All bill in the Senate, exclaiming that Sanders’ plan would increase US healthcare spending by THIRTY TWO TRILLION DOLLARS OVER THE NEXT TEN YEARS. Oh, the humanity!!

But … wait a minute.

We’re spending close to three and a half trillion a year right now, with costs predicted to increase in the next ten years by an average of 5.5% a year. Back of the napkin, simple arithmetic, that means that we’ll be spending close to FIFTY FIVE TRILLION bucks on healthcare in the next ten years with our current status quo payment model. So Bernie’s Big Idea looks like it could SAVE us almost TWENTY TRILLION BUCKS! And everybody would be covered.

So … LET’S DOOOOO EEEEET!

Oh, right, that’s a terrible idea. ‘Cause helping every American person be as healthy as possible is just a shitty idea, right?

‘Merica! It’s a wonderful country! Just don’t get sick!

Sponsor:
Danny van Leeuwen, also known as Health Hats - with his diverse and prolific health experience, Danny uses his multiple hats to empower people as they travel toward their best health. To join Danny on that best health journey visit his blog.

Music:
Movin’ On Up by Podington Bear
http://freemusicarchive.org/music/Podington_Bear/Upbeat/MovinOnUp

Podcast distribution rights:
Creative Commons 3.0 license
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/