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Wow. I both respect you and think you’re absolutely nuts.

Since you seem to be into experimental treatment, have you ever tried helminthic treatment?

https://www.healthline.com/health/crohns-disease/hook-worms

Yes, it is one of the therapies I am currently studying as I have had success with it but it does not scale. The reason I want to do this is so that I can create a Medicare/Medicaid E2E single payer solution that provides these solutions to everyone. Even people on the lower socioeconomic rungs. The pandemic was really hard for me and I have been behaving very recklessly in terms of my own health but I have been very responsible in terms of other people health.

I was running an outpatient program for alternative therapies before I knew that you cant just do that, you need insurance and stuff. So now I am making my own Medicare/Medicaid and hope to bring all of my work into a single payer system. There is no way I can pull this off, my only hope is to attract the attention of some really smart people that will tell me why and how I am a moron and how to fix it, lol.

I would love to talk about my work with someone but i'm kind of still scared because its not in a state that is 100% ready for end users and I know everyone is just going to laugh at me, lol. Hell I laugh at me. But I worked at goop and i know more than everyone there so i'm kind of like ... fuck it. Just code / Fierce Nerd blah blah <insert-some-rationalization-here>.

Right now I am having fun exploring the world of BHM HMS modules, its far less regulated than I thought it would be which might not be a good thing, but we will see. I am going to do a "Show HN" soon but I want to publish feedback from my active patients and providers first.

As someone with autoimmune issues who rarely checks HN but is very interested in your work, do you have a newsletter I could sign up for or an email address I could reach out to to receive updates on your work?

Yes, I also am dying to just talk to anyone about my work and what I am trying to do. I am very approachable and I CRAVE the most vicious, critical feedback that I can find. You can email me (email on profile) as the newsletter stuff will not be done for at least 1 month.

Well, this was finally the thing that made me get an HN account, because I am really interested in talking with someone about that kind of stuff. I can't see an e-mail in your profile though, and as far as I understand noone can see your email you supplied in the email field, and your about section looks empty to me.

Fixed

Wait, did you co-opt the term "Medicare" to use for your project? (medicare.dev) I'm not so sure the government would like that name.

Because I am "literally" trying to recreate a better version of medicare and Medicaid. Those terms are not trademarked. If you look at Medicare.gov and Medicare.com you can see, the term is actually used a ton and the gov does not care. They care much more about bad-faith actors. One of the main benefits is I don't have to tell "regular" people what I am trying to do. This is my "moon-shot project so even if it was an issue I would not change it just to cause a big fuss and get the press from it. The bigger issue was using all of the state HHS logos, but they don't really care about that either.

In preparation for my big launch I needed to test the "do they care" theory so I literally did 2 press releases.

1 targeted directly at the D.C. area and one nationally, every contact they have made with me has been a positive interaction.

https://www.kpvi.com/news/national_news/award-winning-progra...

I paid for someone to handle this for me, really embarrassed by the title but in their defense I have won 7 health hackathons; much of that work inspired what I am doing here.

Ideally I get to a point where my systems are so much better than theres that I can promote services from .dev to .gov, I really have not thought that far ahead but I would love to discuss.

I'm not a trademark lawyer so take this as you will, but the term Medicare has been trademarked since 1957, assigned to the Executive Director of the US Army.

https://trademarks.justia.com/890/00/medicare-89000008.html

Just because you haven't run into a trademark issue yet doesn't mean that you will not in the future. And I don't think I'd want to be fighting the US Army lawyers for the naming rights.

I love your initiative, but you may want to look into the naming issue a bit further (since this is what trademarks are explicitly designed for, to prevent confusion about one product/service doing the same thing under the same name).

So, from what I was told. It has to be shown with the actual extension. For example

https://medicare.com/

This i why I use medicare.dev and medicaid.dev and NEVER just use the naked terms.

This is also what I have seen everywhere else, can you point me in the right direction on this? I really appreciate the input.

I'll send you an email shortly with some details.

Not OP, but I have done this for allergies. N. Americanus, 10-15 eggs at a time. No side effects other than an awful itch 12-36h after administration. Been great for my allergies. I've cut way down on fexofenadine. I also live with a cat and a poodle and only really feel symptoms if I literally rub my face in the cat, or groom the dog inside without a mask.

If you would ever be willing to discuss your work and hear about mine, that would be awesome. AGAIN, I AM NOT A DOCTOR. But I really love this stuff and have started to study for MCAT just so I know more and dont feel like such a moron.

That sounds horrible. Why?

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