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Ben Gilbert: belief

21 Apr 2025 Acquired Epic Systems (MyChart)

“Runaway costs, burdens of administration, so much excess and waste causing (I think) healthcare costs are now 18% of our GDP.”

— Ben Gilbert

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Speaker
Ben Gilbert
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Claim type
belief
Recorded
21 Apr 2025
Publisher
Acquired

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…We’ll discuss that at the end. Yes. So the healthcare industry. There is so much wrong with the American healthcare system. That is an incontrovertible fact. There’s nobody that’s going to tell you, oh, actually it’s pretty good. It’s not pretty good. It’s a disaster. Runaway costs, burdens of administration, so much excess and waste causing (I think) healthcare costs are now 18% of our GDP. Rather than trying to eat that whole elephant today and unpack the entire system, today’s episode is about understanding Epic’s role within it and how Epic became so dominant. And if you want to understand the system, you have to understand Epic.…

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