How A Bitcoin Standard Fixes Healthcare
The Surgery Center Of Oklahoma is a free-market exchange of services between a patient and their surgeon for high quality healthcare, and they accept bitcoin.This is an opinion editorial by RootCause MD, a practicing doctor who favors a holistic, full-stack approach to fixing health.RootCause MD has no affiliation whatsoever to the Oklahoma Surgery Center.The ProblemThe U.S. healthcare system is a dumpster fire. Per capita, the U.S. spends the most in the world on healthcare, almost double the amount of similarly developed nations such as France, Sweden or the U.K. At the same time, the....
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