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Morning Read: Healthcare was barely a mention in the Democratic presidential debate

Also, Craig Venter has a new venture, new capital for Health Gorilla and see Jeb Bush's version of Obamacare.

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Much to the relief of most people reading this, healthcare was just another topic in the Democratic presidential debate. The most interesting moment (as highlighted by Forbes’ Matt Herper) was when each candidate was asked what enemy they were most proud of:

  • Lincoln Chaffee: The coal lobby.
  • Martin O’Malley: NRA
  • Hillary Clinton: NRA, health insurers, drug companies, Iranians, probably the Republicans.
  • Bernie Sanders: Wall Street and the pharmaceutical industry.
  • Jim Webb: The enemy soldier who threw the grenade that injured me.

Obamacare only got a scant mention. Though Clinton did say that undocumented immigrants should be able to buy into Obamacare. – Forbes, The Hill, Huffington Post, RealClearPolitics, Politico & Time

LIFE SCIENCES

J. Craig Venter’s new venture, Health Nucleus, leverages whole genome sequencing to provide health exams for self-paying customers. – Xconomy

Germany-based Luxendo closed a $6.8 million round co-led by EMBL Ventures and Life Science Partners. – PRNewswire

TECHNOLOGY

Health Gorilla raised $2.4 million in Series A funding as part of the rollout of its new communications platform. – PE Hub

Here’s a solid wearables overview. – CB Insights

Here are some of the latest patient security scare stats: 63 percent of healthcare staff are still able to logon to different devices and workstations concurrently, 49 percent are required to manually logoff, and 30 percent do not have unique logins. – Business Wire

POLITICS

Here’s Jeb Bush’s deeper dive into his version of Obamacare. – The New York Times

A LITTLE BIT EXTRA

I was waiting for this: the best overview I’ve seen of the Dell-EMC deal. – Harvard Business Review

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