Healthcare is complicated and expensive. This startup comes out with an app, a fingerprint scanner, and some compelling images, and now people are willing to hand over their money to some brand new company claiming they will bring universal healthcare to the masses.
Rather than develop a long-term set of healthcare provider alternatives, they're depending on selling a story and getting funding from people sensitive to heart-warming stories on the internet to "change the world". If any link in their public relations chain is broken, there goes the project.
I really like the idea. But copying a Sally Struthers late-80s TV commercial probably isn't going to solve healthcare.
I already happily pay taxes thanks towards healthcare where I live but the benefits stop at the arbitrary border of the country I live in.
There are many countries in the world without free health service, Watsi is helping spread that around the world. I don't think supporting watsi somehow precludes or reinvents paying taxes, so your comment is unfounded.
Rather than develop a long-term set of healthcare provider alternatives, they're depending on selling a story and getting funding from people sensitive to heart-warming stories on the internet to "change the world". If any link in their public relations chain is broken, there goes the project.
I really like the idea. But copying a Sally Struthers late-80s TV commercial probably isn't going to solve healthcare.