The problem is all this data from every state is very very similar, but it's a huge job to gather all this data together. The company was doing a very poor job of it as well, with lots of tech debt and incompetent management. There was lots of legally questionable web scraping and manual work. Many states (shamefully) charge money to be able to see what doctors and nurses have been sanctioned, and actively try to prevent the data from being scraped.
All this could be eliminated with a federally mandated data format. That entire company of 300 people could be automated away easily. While I was working there I was always aware that part of everyone's high medical bill ended up in my paycheck: the hospitals and clinics paid this company, and the company paid me.
This was one of the reasons "Dr. Death" was able to keep practicing as long as he did. He resigned from positions and switched facilities/states before the investigations could be completed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Duntsch
https://www.nbc.com/american-greed/video/the-real-dr-death/4...
As for my personal time, money, and issues that are important to me that’s a very different story.
It feels a little bit to me that we’ve so eroded our personal lives compared to professional lives that people are starting to have a hard time distinguishing the two.
This is hackernews, the place where people intend to make positive change with their brain, their time, and sometimes, their money.
It comes up a lot on this site that a job is just a job, and thus you shouldn't focus so much on it to find meaning, fulfillment, etc., but I'll consider this when it doesn't take up majority of my daylight hours.
Money is simply not the only aspect of a job that determines how rewarding it is. Other parameters that people find relevant include meaningful mission, ethical concerns, work relationships, power, travel, ability to open source code, to publish and to give talks, access to expensive hardware, innovation, leading others, helping people in need... etc. I find it a bizarrely narrow view to insist that getting paid is the sole motivation to work. In fact, from conversations with folks older and more experienced than me I am under the impression that as we age all these other aspects of our work keep gaining in importance over paycheck.
That said, I understand that in the absence of money the need to get it is an overriding concern. However, I find the focus on money very surprising for a site full of software engineers who by and large can afford the freedom to pursue meaning and self-actualization in their work.
Hats off to those folks...