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8. Health care administration will be the fastest-growing sector. (The panelists were so bored by this trend they didn't even discuss it.)

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Information technology venture capitalists didn't "want" to discuss "the fastest-growing sector" which constitutes the transmission, storage, and processing of structured information?

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Sadly, health care is so strongly regulated that starting up in that sector might be more of a legal challenge than a technical challenge.

With this administration, the very parameters of the market are within question. How much will be taken over by the government? Who wants to sell to the government?

Yes. There was an Economist article related to this, about progress in health care in India that wouldn't really be possible in Western countries: http://www.economist.com/displayStory.cfm?story_id=13496367

Health care isn't just about making new treatments possible; it's also about making existing treatments efficient and inexpensive.

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