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Re:America’s Health-Care Crisis Is a Gold Mine for Crowdfunding by clamprecht on Thursday June 15, 2017 @06:32PM (#14565031)
What about medical tourism? Seems like a possible solution for non-emergency care. Paul Buchheit tweeted a few years ago that he wanted to fund the "Uber of medical tourism". The tweet seems to be gone (not sure why?), but here's my previous comment about it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10731415

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Re:America’s Health-Care Crisis Is a Gold Mine for Crowdfunding by davidcbc on Thursday June 15, 2017 @07:19PM (#14565300)
Seems like a really bad solution for people who are poor
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Re:America’s Health-Care Crisis Is a Gold Mine for Crowdfunding by michaelchisari on Thursday June 15, 2017 @07:40PM (#14565417)
Or those who need emergency care.
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Re:America’s Health-Care Crisis Is a Gold Mine for Crowdfunding by hkmurakami on Thursday June 15, 2017 @07:14PM (#14565273)
It's considered politically insensitive these days.
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