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Building the website

Clone the repo:

git clone https://github.com/onefact/payless.health.git

If needed, install the node package manager npm and the Node Javascript package with Homebrew on Mac -- brew install node after installing Brew using this link. On Windows, use Chocolatey to install by running choco install nodejs-lts after installing Chocolatey.

Install the dependencies for Markdoc:

cd payless.health
npm install --legacy-peer-deps

Run the website generation with the node package manager:

npm run dev

In a web browser, navigate to http://localhost:3000 to view any changes you make to the code.

We recommend Visual Studio Code to edit this website (you can also install this with Homebrew or Chocolatey).

Funding

We received a grant from Columbia University and Stanford University through their Brown Institute for Media Innovation: https://brown.columbia.edu/22-23-magic/

Legal Status

We are a 501(c)(3) nonprofit foundation -- the One Fact Foundation -- headquartered in New York City.

Plan

Now we are working with dolthub.com to link negotiated rates with prices at every one of 7000+ hospitals in the United States.

We are conducting user research in disadvantaged areas (as measured by household income below $50,000 and at least one household member on Medicaid health insurance), starting in New York before expanding nationwide:

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The roadmap is here: https://github.com/orgs/onefact/projects/2

Key Performance Indicator

Our KPI is the median price of hospital procedures, treatments, medications in the United States across all negotiated rates and hospital prices. If this decreases every quarter, we get promoted.

Talk

We got to give a talk at an NIH conference called aim-ahead.net recently on the state of the US healthcare system, and what we can do about it: https://bit.ly/onefact-keynote

Newsletter

Subscribe to our mailing list to learn when we launch: https://tinyletter.com/payless-health

Licensing

Software is Apache 2.0. Content is CC-BY-SA 4.0.

Contact

Say hi! If you have a story to share about your journey trying to pay less for the health care you deserve, please share it with us: [email protected].

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