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Some smart business in a foreign country should start providing tele-medicine to the US for reasonable prices. We could send blood work overseas cheaper than t
by charlieflowers 7y ago
Some smart business in a foreign country should start providing tele-medicine to the US for reasonable prices.
We could send blood work overseas cheaper than the piracy prices of labcorp, for that matter.
They could explain it legally as "not medical advice" to skirt any FDA laws, but provide world class health care in reality.
It's a business model that could really work. The "skirt America's dumb self-inflicted crap" business model.
- lazyasciiart 7y agoThat would be illegal because they would need to be licensed as doctors in the state of the patient, nothing to do with the FDA. https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/toolkits/telehealth/1/barriers https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/toolkits/telehealth/1/barrie...
- miracle2k 7y agoMore likely, it would need to be legal in the country of the provider, and they would need to be out of reach of the US justice system, would seems doable in principle.
- lazyasciiart 7y agoSure - but it's hard to stay out of reach of the US justice system while staying easily accessible to patients by live video and internet payment in a low-cost-of-living area.