Eventually most of those companies controlled by their own workers would need to raise capital again, and then we'd quickly end up back where we started. Plus employee control hasn't worked well in most of the companies where it was tried. Look what happened to United Airlines. They were majority employee owned for a while, but the different groups of employees never agreed on how to run the company.

I don't know the percentage, but healthcare software vendors absolutely do hire experienced clinicians as Product Managers when they can. But it's hard. There are few such employees available, they're expensive, and most don't understand the product development process. Furthermore their experience sometimes isn't even very relevant: someone who spent 10 years as an obstetrics nurse won't necessarily understand oncology workflows.

Often a better option is to hire several practicing clinicians across different specialties as part time consultants on an advisory council. That way you can gather ideas and get rapid feedback on product concepts without involving them directly in the development process.

Pretty sure Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk use a lot of electronics.

Yes that's correct. Every year, students graduate from medical schools but are unable to enter clinical practice due to a shortage of residency slots. We need more government funding to remove that bottleneck.

https://savegme.org/

NPs and PA time isn't exactly cheap either, and they aren't sitting around waiting for stuff to do. They can be effective at treating routine cases under supervision, however it just wouldn't make sense for physicians to delegate patients histories and chart review to them. They won't necessarily know which questions to ask, and too much relevant information can be lost.

Stockholders expect all companies to eventually pay dividends. This is literally Finance 101 material, a basic part of DCF analysis.

Generally there would be no potential medical malpractice liability if a patient declines a medical procedure. That happens all the time.

Physicians can fire patients, although they seldom do so because of declining a medical procedure. Professional ethics and state laws generally require the physician to first hand off the patient to another physician first; they can't just drop someone with zero notice.

There is generally no mandated checklist, at least not from a legal standpoint. Some healthcare provider organizations do require their employees to follow certain written standards of care. Medical societies also publish evidence-based care guidelines. Compliance is voluntary but gross deviations could be factor in liability cases or in actions by state medical boards.

Insurance reimbursement is an entirely separate issue. Every insurance plan has a different network of providers and different rules about which services are covered under various circumstances.

The UK has a lower obesity rate than the USA (although still relatively high compared to other developed countries).

Healthcare organizations don't want to accept file uploads from patients due to the malware risk. If there's a zero-day exploit in your PDF viewer or something then a single shared file could wreck their entire enterprise network.

Some physicians dictate chart notes as they walk from one patient's room to the next.

The patient's time has zero value to most physicians. It's often faster, and more clinically useful, for them to just ask you for your complaint and medical history. This allows them to guide the conversation and quickly focus in on the exact information they need. Searching through old chart notes is often a waste of time since the systems are slow and the data is frequently incomplete or irrelevant.

Expenditures don't mean much. Look at purchasing power parity, and actual capabilities. The UK military lost the ability to conduct large-scale independent operations without US support decades ago. Capabilities are minimal in many crucial areas including logistics, aerial refueling, strategic bombing, amphibious lift, ballistic missile defense, and space dominance. Even their nuclear deterrent is completely dependent on the US military-industrial complex.

You can buy a house with cryptocurrency. Not sure if that's a good idea, but it's happening.

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/05/02/greenwich-mansion-for-sale-w...

Legally though, the transaction still has to be recorded and taxed in USD.

The UK Pound is still considered an international reserve currency by virtue of being incorporated into IMF special drawing rights, even though the UK no longer really has a vast military or substantial colonial possessions.

Actually the DeFi yield opportunities are not any better than Treasuries on a risk-adjusted basis. You might not be familiar with the actual risk level, including counterparty risk. Some of the cryptocurrency grifters have intentionally obscured that issue.

As long as there are well-capitalized parties that want to prop up the UK Pound, it will be fine. Whoops.

https://www.investopedia.com/ask/answers/08/george-soros-ban...

You can just check the Transportation Injury Mapping System (TIMS) to pull the history of serious crashes at any location in California.

https://tims.berkeley.edu/

McDonald's stock (MCD) pays a 2.39% dividend yield based on people buying hamburgers. That's hard cash paid out every year. Bitcoin doesn't pay any dividends.

Yes companies have been kicked out of YC. I don't know whether these allegations are true and have no opinion on which party was in the right here.

"Dark CEO Paul Biggar said YC booting him for tweeting about internal posts on skipping COVID-19 vaccine lines.

Prolific CEO Katia Damer said she was cut after calling out misogyny by YC founders.“

https://www.businessinsider.com/ycombinator-katia-damer-paul...

https://techcrunch.com/2021/06/09/does-what-happens-at-yc-st...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27399581

I thought that most of the people on the new-car-every-two-years bandwagon were leasing?