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friscotoday at 12:05 AM1 replyview on HN

I'm sorry, compared to what? We're not talking about a routine doctor's office for healthy people. Advanced care is extremely technologically intensive and your local surgeon is not personally buying the $20M in infrastructure required for many modern advanced treatments. Venture capital has been essential for progress in medicine, and many advanced therapies are going to be increasingly delivered vertically integrated for the widest accessibility and best outcomes.


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bonsai_spooltoday at 12:22 AM

> Venture capital has been essential for progress in medicine

VC's can still fund companies that are making expensive new products.

Banks (and PE...) can still underwrite loans for these things.

We have many solutions for capex-intensive businesses and have had these for over four hundred years. LBO-type PE is not even fifty years old yet

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