I don't know whether to smile or cry!http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/01/09/1421961/online-coupons-health-care/
By Sy Mukherjee posted from ThinkProgress Health on Jan 9, 2013
In a striking example of the intersection between America’s broken health care system and 21st century information technology, doctors and dentists are successfully luring younger Americans between the ages of 20 and 40 into purchasing online coupons for their health care needs, Kaiser Health News reports.
The coupons tend to attract younger patients looking for one-off services that don’t require much follow up. Tellingly, even though many of these Americans already possess private insurance, the online deals are more generous than their benefits:
Health and medical deals make up about 5 to 10 percent of the online coupon industry, according to Unaiz Kabani, data product manager at Yipit, a service that aggregates companies’ daily deals.
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ThinkProgress has previously reported on multiple instances of Americans resorting to desperate measures such as online “crowd funding” — in essence, cyber-begging — in order to pay for their medical care. This is as much a testament to the consumer-assisting potential of the Internet as it is an indictment of America’s increasingly costly health care system.
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