Do both. Start a business you understand and start now on educating yourself more deeply on the issues in health care. To me the single largest opportunity in real estate is to move away from the broker model to a fixed fee model with guaranteed service levels. This would allow a focus on productivity and value added service, but my experience is much more limited than yours.
The only place that a market current functions in health care is cosmetic and other elective surgeries. Because the patient pays a number of incentives are aligned that are disjoint in the third party payer (e.g. employer / insurance) model. If you could find another medical practice that patients could pay for, a lot of startup opportunities would flow.
Entrepreneurs work from available means to ends, start with what you know well and work (assuming you have passion for it) and learn more about the aspects of healthcare that energize you.
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Do both. Start a business you understand and start now on educating yourself more deeply on the issues in health care. To me the single largest opportunity in real estate is to move away from the broker model to a fixed fee model with guaranteed service levels. This would allow a focus on productivity and value added service, but my experience is much more limited than yours.
The only place that a market current functions in health care is cosmetic and other elective surgeries. Because the patient pays a number of incentives are aligned that are disjoint in the third party payer (e.g. employer / insurance) model. If you could find another medical practice that patients could pay for, a lot of startup opportunities would flow.
Entrepreneurs work from available means to ends, start with what you know well and work (assuming you have passion for it) and learn more about the aspects of healthcare that energize you.