Obamacare Gives Boost to Startups Focused on Health Care for Poor

Bloomberg BusinessWeek: Bay Area dermatologist David Wong can’t forget a patient he met during a trip to California’s Central Valley in 2009: a farmworker with a bleeding lesion on his right forearm who died within six months of Wong’s diagnosis of metastatic melanoma. The man lived less than two hours from San Francisco, and Wong says he was appalled by the “marked difference in the access to care as well as the quality of care patients were receiving.”

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