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The 411: Investment Opportunity - Placing Healthcare Back Where It Belongs - The People
Found on: - https://www.startengine.com/citizenhealth
Universal healthcare for the people, by the people
Invest in Citizen Health
What Netflix did to Blockbuster, Citizen Health is doing to health insurance companies.
Using blockchain, AI, and the power of the crowd, we've developed a decentralized model for a universal health care system that's owned and controlled by the people - not governments or corporations. Our peer-to-peer framework makes the traditional insurance model obsolete and removes unnecessary intermediaries from the healthcare equation.
The time has come for us as American citizens to say “NO.” It’s time to put our foot down and draw a line in the sand. No Republican, Democrat or Independent has presented a viable economic model to pull our healthcare industry away from the increasing costs and financial burdens that have been plaguing our country for years.
What we need is an ecosystem that gives the power back to people.We need a community that fosters healthy living and helps those in need. We need to utilize our collective strengths to reinvent a new healthcare system that puts patients, caregivers, and health providers at the center.
That’s the mission of Citizen Health.
100% universal healthcare that is 100% owned & operated by the citizens of America. The time has come for us to break away from the inefficiencies of our past and take humanity to the next level of health & wealth.
What We're Fixing
As long as crony politicians, unethical pharmaceutical companies, and greedy
insurance companies are still controlling our healthcare system,
our future faces the same high costs and inefficient care
we’re currently getting.
How We're Fixing It:
Most people believe the American healthcare system is broken.
On the contrary, it’s functioning just as designed. It was originally built on a negative
incentive model (fee-for-service) that spawned a medical industry monster profiting more
off our unhealthy conditions than it does our healthy decisions.
Healthcare doesn't have to be complex. Working from a first principle mindset, you
can reduce everything down to the fundamental variables in the healthcare equation.
At the base, we have "people" and their "health."
Our goal is to increase a person's health for the least amount of money.
People over profit.
For the new health economy to prosper, we've created a new financial system consisting of 3 crypto assets.
One is our stable currency called Medit "MDT" and is designed to replace the dollar in healthcare. It is also used as an incentive and API token within our decentralized ecosystem.
The second is a derivative token called Medex "MDX" that functions as a stake in the network and to stabilize the Medit. MDX is needed to vote on protocol changes, submit proposals, and to receive stabilization proceeds.
The third is what we’re calling a “Personal Health Asset,” which is a cross between an HSA, life/health insurance, and a crypto wallet. This Personal Health Asset grows with you for life and is used to pay for health & wellness services, investing in research & development, and to store your valuable personal health data.
Our Market and Industry
Direct Primary Care
We're building off the growing movement of doctors who are ditching health insurance and going to a direct payment model. This is called "Direct Primary Care", and it's quietly sweeping the nation. As of April 2018, 25 states have enacted laws stating that a contract between a patient and the doctor does not fall under insurance regulation.Innovation is flourishing in this new environment.
DPC is finally solving the "Quadruple Aim." Doctors love it, patients love it, and employers love it. While we didn't invent this model, we are perfecting and globally scaling it.
Health Savings Account
Next is the HSA market. With our current political administration pushing a free-market healthcare system relying heavily on the use of Health Savings Accounts, our blockchain-based Personal Health Asset is primed to take on the incumbents.
Instead of sending your money to a third-party insurance company, now you can invest in your future self. Imagine having a savings account that pays for your health services and also links together with millions of other accounts to form a peer-to-peer mega fund. This is what our Personal Health Asset enables.
Crowdfunding & Crowdsourcing
The internet has empowered us to organize large groups of people to come together and accomplish remarkable things. From the explosion of Kickstarter-type platforms to open innovation hubs, this social sharing/connecting movement is changing the way both human & financial capital is utilized.
We are taking these crowd-based models and applying cryptoeconomics and AI to build an extremely large DCO (decentralized collaborative organization). This will be the world's largest crowd-powered endeavor on the mission to cure, prevent, or manage all diseases by 2050.
Introducing “Health as a Service.” A monthly subscription to a better and healthier you.
The current health insurance industry is built off of “Sick Care.” Waiting until you are sick to address your condition is called reactive medicine. We at Citizen Health believe in a better way. We believe in predictive & proactive health.
These are personalized plans based on your genetics, microbiomics, wearable data, medical records, and numerous other social determinants of your health. We take a complete holistic view of your data to figure out the best way to optimize your health. This includes nutritional & fitness guidance, as well as precision medicine tailored to you.
Our first group of plans are designed to make the largest impact in saving lives and saving money in America.
Brennen Hodge
Founder, CEO
Brennen has centered his professional life on technological connection. Beginning with CitiLife, (CEO, 2011-2014) Brennen established a way for journalists and bloggers to distribute content and generate revenue through a new online platform. Through dbVantage, (Founder & CEO, 2012-2018 (approx. 0.5 hours/week currently working here)) he cultivated skills in design, programming and formed his expertise in leadership and team management. His real passion for healthcare and his journey towards Citizen Health, first began with Pharmedio, four years ago. (CEO, 2014-2017). During his tenure with Pharmedio, Brennen would learn the inefficiencies of pharmacy benefit managers and insurance billing after developing software for over 100 pharmacies. The valuable discoveries, yet challenging complexities surrounding healthcare inspired Brennen to look closer at what could be done to transform healthcare. With the emerging technologies, blockchain, AI and other cutting-edge advancements, healthcare now has a way to be digitized, networked, affordable and comprehensive. Citizen Health (Founder & CEO, 2017 to present) is the product of these advancements, derived from years of Brennen’s innovation and intuitive thinking.
Megan Janas
Co-Founder, Digital Health Strategist
Megan has spent most of her career focused on innovation in healthcare. At an early age, she was privileged to work with the groundbreaking STAR Human Resources, a company focused on healthcare benefits for part-time and low wage employees. It was here, she came to understand the value of health benefits for all and that alternative models of healthcare not only can succeed, but thrive. In the digital era, Megan would go on to work with Textra Healthcare (Director Marketing, 2011-2016) helping to design and build an award-winning, semi-automated communication platform, facilitating patient to provider follow-up care. While here, Megan would grow her digital strategy expertise - discovering the connections and value between networked care and the data science of communication in healthcare. Continuing her search for ways to further connect patients and provide healthcare, she would co-found SkyHigh Health (Co-founder, 2017- present) a telehealth DPC designed to provide quality, convenient and affordable healthcare. Her mission to find more advanced healthcare models and technology would connect her with Brennen to establish, design and network Citizen Health (Co-founder, 2017- present).
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