Telehealth startup Antidote Health wants to create a more accessible healthcare landscape in the US ; here ' s how they plan to do it .
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Telehealth startup Antidote Health wants to create a more accessible healthcare landscape in the US ; here ' s how they plan to do it .
WRITTEN BY : LEILA HAWKINS
Antidote Health is a telehealth provider that launched in January 2021 , with the aim of making healthcare more affordable to US citizens .
For Carin-Belle Feder , Antidote ' s Co-founder and Chief Technology Officer , equitable healthcare is their ultimate goal . " The first thing that everyone knows about the US healthcare system is that it ' s very expensive , and is not accessible to most people without their employers ' insurance " she says . " Obviously that means that if you ' re not employed by a big company , or you ' re freelance like Uber drivers and yoga teachers , you can ' t really afford health insurance ."
Feder is originally from Israel , and she explains that the healthcare system there is radically different . " Living in Israel , I lived in an ecosystem where it was obvious that I deserve healthcare , and to receive treatment for conditions that are painful or life-threatening .
" The founders of Antidote arrived upon a mission to provide healthcare to people who can ' t afford it . The way we see it is that the US medical system is not incentivised for the patient . Most of the entities in this ecosystem are incentivised just to make more money from the patient , whether it ' s through insurance , or the actual medical treatment " she says . healthcareglobal . com 41