The medical industrial complex hates us because we enable people to live free from the shackles of health insurance. Fund humans, not health insurance.
Healthcare costs for a family of 4 on CrowdHealth*:
2021: $9,000
2022: $8,340
2023: $6,900
2024: $6,900
*(monthly fee + monthly crowdfunding maximum) x 12
โThis is my littleย girl. She was suffering from recurring ear infections and a perforated ear drum. So, at the recommendation of our Ear, Nose and Throat doctor, we scheduled a procedure at the local hospital to get tubes in her ears. Not too long after the 15-minute procedureโฆ
Most of our members join us not because of a low price but because they are joining a community on mission. If you are passionate about one (or all) of these and unsatisfied with how you are being treated by the current system, weโd be honored to have you join us.
We are going to give away our very complex business model. Here goes:
1. Enable people to pay in cash. Healthcare is way easier and cheaper if you pay in cash.
2. Love our customers well. If we do, they will tell their friends which is the best/most financially efficient formโฆ
The biggest difference between CrowdHealth and health insurance is that with Crowd you are sending your money directly to help another human being. You know exactly what you are helping pay for (knee surgery, pregnancy, etc). With health insurance, you blindly send them money andโฆ
Our CEO
@SchoonoverAndy
shared a story recently about his hospital bill:
โHere is a story about how I just might be a psychopath (and how I saved 88% on my medical bill in 12 minutes).
I was in the ER a couple months ago (turned out to be a nothing burger...technical term) butโฆ
Our CEO
@SchoonoverAndy
just got sent to collections agency. ๐ This is the first in our "What do do when..." series.
What do you do when you get a call or mail from a collections agency? You might be surprised by the answer.
You pay $50 a month to be a member of the Crowd.
When you get hurt, sick, or have a baby, CrowdHealth reaches out to other members to help you.
Members under 55 will be asked for up to $135, over 55 will be asked for up to $270, families of 4 or more will be asked for up toโฆ
We are coming off one of our biggest months in the history of the company. We are so thankful for your support. We are just getting started in our mission to change this broken system.
Fund humans, not health insurance
Our CEO's father in law had a laparoscopic gall bladder removal last week. His health plan (major nationwide plan) paid $44,500.
Our member had a laparoscopic gall bladder removal yesterday and paid $5,305.
Our favorite story:
We had a member with a miscarriage that had complications requiring medical treatment.
We sent out the Crowdfunding request to our members to help with the bills.
A member responded: โMiscarriage is a part of my story. I know what this family is goingโฆ
Ya'll we have some members going through some tough stuff. NICU babies, aggressive forms of cancer, complex surgeries. We would be very thankful for your generosity this month.
Members < 55 - $50 membership fee plus $75 in crowdfunding = $125
Members >55 - $50 membership feeโฆ
Signing up for health insurance is like getting your teeth pulled, doing taxes, stepping in ๐ฉ, or getting attacked by your next door neighbors chihuahua.
Signing up for CrowdHealth takes 5 minutes and youโll never have to think about Gold/Silver/Bronze plans, HMOs, PPOs,โฆ
Anybody who retweets this and follows our account gets a chance at 1/4 of a grass fed, grass finished cow (115+ lbs) hand delivered to your home by
@JakeSteaks1
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Last night we announced at
@AustinBTCclub
that we have integrated a Lightning wallet into the CrowdHealth app. Starting in early 2024 our Bitcoin Crowd will be able to pay their membership fees, fund each others health expenses, and pay their doctors through the Lightningโฆ
โLast Thursday, during a normal zoom call my words turned to gibberish. I couldnโt finish a sentence. Thinking I was having a stroke I had a friend here at
@bitcoincommons
call EMS.
A day in the hospital and several scans later it looks like it was a severe migraine that led toโฆ
Two invoices per month
1: $50 per person is sent to CrowdHealth to pay the bills.
2. A crowdfunding request that, if accepted, is sent to another member who needs help paying bills. The timing of this invoice depends upon the bills that are submitted. We donโt touch this money.โฆ
Itโs that time again. Itโs time for the
Quarterly
Quarter
Cow
Contest
One person who retweets and follows CrowdHealth will be eligible for a quarter cow delivered directly to your home by the famous
@jakesteaks1
(US only)
These are grass fed beauties from womb to tomb.โฆ
CrowdHealth provides healthcare payment tools for the uninsured to viably navigate the complexities of the โAmericanโ healthcare system. Ditch insurance and join us to experience the freedom from the medical industrial complex.
In 2022 our members paid approximately $65 per month for their healthcare (crowdfunding requests plus CrowdHealth fees). The rest of the money our members contributed is still sitting in their account in $ or
#btc
We are done crowdfunding for the year.
3,506 submitted to the community for crowdfunding
3,506 funded by the community
We had some doozies. Brain surgery, cancer cases, motor vehicle accidents, NICU babies, a whole bunch of MSK surgeries, and a host of other large events.โฆ
If you hate the monetary system buy Bitcoin
If you hate the food system, shake your local ranchers hand.
If you hate our healthcare system, join CrowdHealth
We believe, and many scientists agree, that autophagy (the bodyโs response to prolonged fasting) could significantly reduce chronic disease, especially cancer.
Fasting hurts big food. No pharmaceutical company profits from the body naturally destroying harmful cells. Theโฆ
80% of chronic disease can be avoided with healthy eating, $1 out of $4 is spent on diabetics (90% preventable for TDM2), yet med schools don't teach nutrition.
โMy family of 4 saved approximately $27,000 by using CrowdHealth this year. Here is the math:
Obamacare options:
$1,200/month with a $14,000 deductible, $18,000 max out-of-pocket.
We would have paid $1,200ร12 = $14,400 in premiums.
We had a large event which would haveโฆ
Will the CrowdHealth community fund home births?
Nationally 1.4% of births are home births
CrowdHealth ~50% of births are home births
Our community thinks differently about our health. Fund humans, not health insurance.
We are excited to announce a partnership with
@SwanBitcoin
โCrowdHealth is leading an innovative approach to paying for health care by embracing Bitcoin, the future of money,โ said
@coryklippsten
, founder and CEO of Swan Bitcoin.
3 changes to our
#btc
community:
Change
#1
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We had a member recently who had a miscarriage. When we crowdfunded the health event we had CrowdHealth members reach out to us and ask if they could give MORE $ to help this family.
Crowdfunding health bills brings
humanity back to healthcare.
What the Crowd has funded:
Heart surgery โ
Colon cancer โ
Brain hemorrhage โ
Motorcycle accident โ
Breast Cancer โ
NICU care โ
Knee replacements โ
Major spine surgery โ
Members saving millions of dollars on healthcare expenses โ
What the Crowd has not funded:
Massiveโฆ
We help our members negotiate their bills then we send them to the Crowd for crowdfunding.
Member paid $500
Crowdfunded $7000
Fund humans not health insurance
We have a board meeting next week.
We will be presenting a base case budget w profitability in early Q2.
If we were to shut down growth initiatives (new customers = attrition), weโd hit profitability in February.
Corporate cash and equivalents at point of profitability willโฆ
Doctors salaries account for only 8% of total healthcare costs. Doctors arenโt the problem. Unshackling them from the restrictions imposed by health insurance, and giving them more autonomy to care for their patients is the solution.
This was a huge win. There are only three doctors in this memberโs state that could do this specific procedure and we were still able to get an incredible price.
Please contact us and let us negotiate big healthcare procedures for you. We can find you incredible doctors atโฆ
Member broke his arm and received medication, x-ray, and splint at the ER. He was also told at the time of service that they don't discount. When he received the ~$9,000 ER bill, he called anyway and was able to secure a > 90% discount bringing the bill total down to $700.
The medical industrial complex profits from you being sick and then treating your illness with expensive drugs and costly medical procedures. Help us build a better parallel system.
You pay $50/person membership fee plus 1 request a month up to*:
$135 if you are an individualโฆ
Itโs that time. Time for our
Quarterly
Quarter
Cow
Contest
2 chances to win:
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We will pick one random winner who will get a home delivery of a quarter grass fed,โฆ
We have been seeing this chart over the last couple of days leading people to believe the US life expectancy is low due to our healthcare system. It's not. It's due to personal choices.
@saifedean
and our CEO
@SchoonoverAndy
chatted about it.
Still our favorite story:
Member in WI got a quote for $80k+ for a procedure.
We found a more experienced surgeon in OK that would do it for $22k.
We sent a CrowdHealth employee to meet them in a Mercedes at the airport to be their chauffeur for the weekend.
The Crowd:
Gotโฆ
We just saved a member nearly $300,000 on an ER/extended hospital stay. We will be crowdfunding the bill in the next week or so. Once the member finalizes payment weโll give you the details ๐๐๐ฅณ๐พ
Healthcare crowdfunding and advocacy at its best. Our member was diagnosed with cancer and we were privileged to be her ally while walking alongside her in the battle. The surgery went ๐๐ป and the prognosis is ๐ฏ
We announced three initiatives at the
#btc
happy hour last night (which was a blast). We will be disclosing them here over the next few weeks. The first is that, like May, we will only be charging $50 per member in June. Because our members have been so efficient in theirโฆ
Happy 2 year birthday to us!
Thousands of bills paid, thousands of satisfied customers, tens of thousands of crowdfunding requests, millions of dollars saved.
Thanks to all who have supported us. We are so very appreciative.
โSchoonover has made it his mission to destroy traditional health insurance by building a parallel system. โThere are so many perverse incentives, and so many rent seekers in the current system, that thereโs no way to change it without burning it down,โ he tells Forbes.โ ๐
Whoโฆ
Several hundred members will get a crowdfunding request today for a member with colon cancer.
He went to the ER with abdomen pain. ER found kidney stones but also noticed abnormalities in the colon.
Got a colonoscopy which concluded it was stage II colon cancer.
Had surgery toโฆ
We have a member in VA that just gave birth and their little one is headed to the NICU. We have few details but your thoughts and prayers for this family would be appreciated.
Happy Cinco de Mayo ๐
1) Crowdfunding requests have been significantly lower than expected resulting in funds available in your crowdfunding accounts being higher than expected. We hate inefficient uses of capital. Therefore, we will not be collecting any additional deposits toโฆ
By 2030 the US will spend more on health care than the GDPs of every country except the US and Chinaโฆnearly $7T
Multiply the number of people in your family by $20,000. Thatโs how much you will be paying either through taxes, directly out of your paycheck or out of pocket, forโฆ
Itโs nearly impossible for doctors to remain independent in the current insurance led system. We want to support independent doctors practices by enabling our members to pay fair rates in cash. If you know any good independent doctors please consider adding them to our database.โฆ
Do you feel your doctor betrayed you in the last few years? This has been a sentiment shared by many, and while I empathize, I have bad news for you... Your doctor doesn't work for you
Let me explain
This is why so many woman are choosing to have a natural, at home birth ๐ชท
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Your chances of having a smooth and โeasyโ delivery are higher when you have a home birth. One reason being, there areโฆ
Itโs been about 1.5 years since we launched and we have nearly 100 babies born/in womb.
If you are a fan of depopulating the ๐you wonโt be a fan of
@JoinCrowdHealth
Pharma in our current systemโฆ.
PBMs = pharmacy benefit managers. They are leech on society. They are typically owned by insurance companies.
If you pay direct you eliminate them from the system.
Paying direct is the way.
Fund humans, not health insurance (or PBMs)
My 2024 monthly health insurance (pre subsidy) going up 18% for me, my spouse and 2 of the kids.
Almost $4k a month now, thatโs allโฆover 2 times my mortgage payment.
(Silver level PPO for those that are curious)
The medical industrial complex loves to criticize the alternatives to prescriptions and expensive proceduresโฆbut then again they make more $$$ when you are sick. CrowdHealth, on the other hand, will gladly crowdfund your holistic, naturopathic, and integrative bills.
Most people donโt know this:
Youโll save 50% on your medical expenses if you:.
Get labs at an independent lab
Get imaging at an imaging center
Get outpatient surgeries at a surgery center
Give birth at home or a birthing center
Take care of non life threatening injuries at anโฆ
Member just DMโd us his lab costs:
Before CrowdHealth $547
With CrowdHealth $196
Thatโs a 64% savings for those keeping score.
He also mentioned heโs down 25lbs and his lowest weight in 30 years.
Our members are changing healthcare.
This is so fundamental to CrowdHealth's success. Hospitals are required by law (UCC 2-305) to negotiate a fair and reasonable price if they don't give you a price up front.
CrowdHealth, and our ecosystem of partners (including attorneys), will negotiate on your behalf. We forceโฆ
Crowdfunding has been completed for the month. Our requests continue to be heavy on injuries and babies. Thanks to everyone who agreed to fund humans, not health insurance this month.
Our healthcare system is nuts.
In October 2022, my son had genetic testing done, the provider quoted us ~$500.
In January 2023, our insurer paid the testing co ~$34,000.
In April 2024, we received a bill for the residual in the amount of ~$10,000.
How should I approachโฆ