Why is health care the last service industry to go virtual?

Unless you are going in for a health emergency, a surgical procedure, or a health care provider needs to physically examine the patient by hand, there’s no reason we couldn’t do many aspects of health care virtually.
At a time when when Skype, Facetime, Zoom, and other telecommunication applications are the norm, why don’t we have more virtual health-care visits?
Have you noticed how there are no more lines to talk to live tellers in banks?  Twenty years ago, I remember having to think about scheduling my time to wait in line to do my banking and trying to strategize going at non-peak hours. Today, on the rare occasions I hav...

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