How Cutesy Startups Capitalize on America’s Rotten Health Care System

Recently, holed up in my apartment awaiting the results of a Covid-19 test I’d waited three hours to secure from a publicly funded bus parked on the side of the road, I did what I imagine a lot of people experiencing inscrutable symptoms and a pervasive sense of ennui do. I opened Instagram, hoping to find a distraction. Unfortunately, social media platforms have a way of showing you exactly what you don’t want in moments of localized crisis, and so Instagram mostly told me what I already knew: All of my friends were either sick and quarantined...