Andy Grove’s placebo pill for U.S. healthcare
Having survived prostate cancer and now facing a mild form of Parkinson’s disease, former Intel chairman Andy Grove has turned his analytical eye on the increasingly dysfunctional U.S. healthcare system.
Unfortunately, his recommendations are disappointingly small-scale and reflective of the inordinate faith that many high-tech aficionados place in technological “fixes” for complex social phenomena. I’ll explain why in a moment.
To Grove’s tremendous credit, he argues in a recent interview with Wired News that the most pressing… Continue Reading