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a16z Bio + Health #12: Talking Price Transparency and Patient Engagement with Florian Otto

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Is This a Unique American Problem?

Is this a uniquely american problem? M, and if it is, do we have a sense of what the cause of this disease is? Yes, a very good question. A, how i the problem that my wife had, i would say is a pretty unique american problem. And what is the problem? You're going to the healthger provider, you have no idea how much it will cost, and you're getting three different bills for the same visit. Why is that? Because you have these very high out of pocket payments. The deductable perdeductable plan went up from 400 bucks around ten years ago to write now around 25 hundred dollars. So huge ampatient

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