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Why America’s Health Crisis Is an Incentive Problem

2026-02-04 00:00:00 +0000 UTC ·41m 58s ·by Andreessen Horowitz
Why America’s Health Crisis Is an Incentive Problem
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About this episode

a16z general partner Erik Torenberg speaks with Justin Mares, founder and CEO of Truemed. They discuss why American health outcomes are so poor compared to the rest of the developed world, how crop subsidies created a food system that “systematically outputs unhealthy people,” and what it would take