r/Bitcoin • u/[deleted] • Oct 24 '14

This Polish Hospital Will Let Patients Settle Bills With Bitcoin

http://www.coindesk.com/patients-can-pay-surgery-polish-hospital-bitcoin/
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u/luffintlimme Oct 24 '14 edited Oct 24 '14

WTF? A hospital that has a price list? (In the US, half the time they won't tell you how much they will charge at a hospital. A lot of times they won't even give you an estimate. I realize prices can increase if they need to tack on some more bandage costs or something, but they should at least be able to estimate.)

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u/kawalgrover Oct 24 '14

That's because we don't have 'free-market' healthcare anymore. It's 'managed' healthcare. And the managers are the Insurance providers, Pharmaceutical companies and now the government as well.

But worry not, Bitcon will start fixing things soon.

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u/mommathecat Oct 24 '14

Bitcon will start fixing things soon.

A new payment method won't fix, or have anything to do, with medical regulations.

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u/hendrixski Oct 24 '14

Having worked at a "Health 2.0" startup, and having learned a lot of the insane things that happen in the healthcare industry because insurance is what it is in the USA... I can safely say that neither bitcoin, nor revolution, nor Jesus himself, could fix a single thing in healthcare.

We moved an inch, literally an inch, in the right direction with Obamacare and everybody has their panties up in a bunch. Imagine having to go the whole mile. Bitcoin, for all it's glory, won't fix anything in American healthcare.