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Show HN: Urgent care in your home

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Re: Show HN: Urgent care in your home

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Interesting idea. Doesn't "urgent care" imply that a home visit wouldn't be suitable? If I was in urgent need then a hospital visit with access to all the equipment an emergency room has would be the best option right? Seems like this kind of wording would open you up to some kind of liability issues.

Emergency care is what you are describing. Urgent care, while urgent, doesn't have the same immediacy. This replaces what gets done in an urgent care facility.

Re: Show HN: Urgent care in your home

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1) Initial thought - cool, but then 2) I'd still want to use insurance, particularly as there is variability in the cost. 3) Some things listed require prescriptions to be filled. In those cases, I assume I'm still going to have to get dressed and drive to the pharmacy, at which point, what it is the benefit? 4) Some insurance carriers provide services similar to this. A few years back, I had a physical injury which…

2) you receive the paperwork you need to submit to your insurance provider, but it is not done by Yodel Health.

3) that may be true. But you may not have to, for example, schlep your sick 5 year old with you. That's the killer use case.

Re: Show HN: Urgent care in your home

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1) Initial thought - cool, but then 2) I'd still want to use insurance, particularly as there is variability in the cost. 3) Some things listed require prescriptions to be filled. In those cases, I assume I'm still going to have to get dressed and drive to the pharmacy, at which point, what it is the benefit? 4) Some insurance carriers provide services similar to this. A few years back, I had a physical injury which…

2) you receive the paperwork you need to submit to your insurance provider, but it is not done by Yodel Health. 3) that may be true. But you may not have to, for example, schlep your sick 5 year old with you. That's the killer use case.

2) I'd definitely make that possibility more visible in any marketing.

3) Again, I'd make that a bit more visible in any marketing. (As a single person, if I'm going to have to schlep myself to the pharmacy, I might as well start at the clinic that's in the same building. So, I'm clearly not your targetmarket on this point.)

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