Clark had seen the health care system as he saw much of the world, in black and white. To his way of thinking there were health care professionals who clearly served a purpose. They were called doctors. And there were people who clearly needed health care. They were called patients. Everyone else in between—the hundreds of billions in paperwork and bullshit—could go. All Mike Long’s soothing talk about “partnering” and “win-win relationships with other health care firms” was a smoke screen for what Clark was up to when he created Healtheon. “We want to empower the doctors and the patients and
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