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144. Fiat healthcare & Crowdhealth with Andy Schoonover

Crowdhealth CEO Andy Schoonover joins us for a wide-ranging discussion of the failures of fiat healthcare and health insurance, and how his new startup Crowdhealth, works to solve them. Andy explains the institutional and regulatory reasons that make healthcare costs continue to rise, and why insurance companies have the perverse incentive to let costs rise. He also explains how Crowdhealth uses bitcoin to make healthcare affordable for patients and better rewarding for doctors by taking the insurance companies out of the equation.

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347. The Bitcoin Standard Course - Launch Lecture

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The Bitcoin Standard Podcast

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Saifedean revisits The Bitcoin Standard almost ten years after writing it. The first lecture covers the prologue: Bitcoin’s origins, how it gained value, and why it is digital cash and digital hard money.

Watch the lecture and follow the series on The Bitcoin Standard Course page.