Is Lack of Access to Healthcare Stifling Entrepreneurship?

Paul Kedrosky had a very interesting take on entrepreneurship this week on “Marketplace.”  In an interview with Tess Vigeland, he suggested that access to healthcare, and not access to capital, was a key obstacle to entrepreneurship in today’s economic climate. An excerpt:

Vigeland: So then you have these non-20 somethings who are opening up these businesses. What is standing in their way? You do talk about in the article about how health care is a really big issue.

KEDROSKY: Right. Exactly. One of the myths in entrepreneurship is this idea that the primary obstacle is the availability of capital when most entrepreneurs are ego-driven people who believe that they can manage technology risk, they can… Read More