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1. ageitg+Sn[view] [source] 2022-05-26 16:36:49
>>sepias+(OP)
I'm a co-founder of Turquoise Health (https://turquoise.health/). We are working to improve US healthcare by exposing the prices that are negotiated at all levels of the insurance billing process and building tools where price negotiations happen in a competitive market instead of in secret.

The goal is to drive down healthcare prices using the levers that are available. Right now, there are often 10x price differences between two providers for the same service (or even between two patients at the same hospital) because all pricing is negotiated in a vacuum separately by every insurance company. It leads to a very distorted system with little downward price pressure.

We don't have a magic wand that we can wave to "fix healthcare", but we feel like we are driven by having a positive impact in the most pragmatic way possible. The premise will sound strange to people outside the US where heath care prices aren't defined by what insurance plan your job provides, but it is a huge market in the US where a ton of GDP is mis-spent on healthcare and ripe for disruption.

(And yes, we are hiring!)

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2. linsom+Ry[view] [source] 2022-05-26 17:30:59
>>ageitg+Sn
Do you have any ideas on jobs for an RN that would like to change the healthcare world. Particularly an RN that was worn down pre-pandemic from the cost optimization that leads to nurses having 2x+ the ideal patient load, and families treating them like waitresses? Asking for a friend.
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3. ageitg+yB[view] [source] 2022-05-26 17:43:26
>>linsom+Ry
I really wish I had some good advice, but I don't unfortunately.
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