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by gremlinsinc
3138 days ago
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Is everyone in Silicon Valley so out of touch? Those hospitals presumably have to pay someone to take pictures, upload to watsi the profile, manage the billing, etc... Wouldn't it be easier -- if Watsi instead helped these countries institute some sort of single payer plan, or a plan whereby the Hospital is an insurer. Everyone in their 'district' is insured by that hospital. They pay monthly fees based on income 2-4% maybe? Watsi could give grants to hospitals who are in the red as well as consult them on how to improve productivity and lower costs... I think this model would work here as well... If you're out of network on a business trip or something, you'd go to another hospital, your home hospital would pay the out of network one. The hospital benefits because they have MRR from all patients living in their district who opt-in to their hospital. Hospitals could then standardize all billing and use a central software/system to manage everything get rid of lots of billers, not need to deal with insurance companies anymore, and they'd always get paid. |
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And that's a fully different level of activity; you have to go through your national foreign aid agency (they might laugh at you, hopefully only at first). You're basically trying to interfere in foreign politics at this point, and as you can guess the diplomacy involved is crazy (as it should be).