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For cryptocurrencies to become fully adopted, every sector of society should consider whether it will provide further benefit to their services. The healthcare sector is one of those. Patients and hospital staff can use crypto for transactions like hospital fees, medical supplies, etc., and hospitals can use crypto's blockchain technology for their databases.
Just imagine if in the future, if I get old and sickly, and have collected a lot of Bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies in my youth, I can use them to help pay for my medical bills. But then again, if hospitals decided to create their own coins, and that coins they created turns out into shitcoins, they might place their institutions into financial jeopardy. And if that happens, there will be severe repercussions, as we all know that lives can be literally at stake here for obvious reasons.
So unlike the other sectors, the healthcare sector are in a more precarious position where financial failure is not an option, especially the larger ones. Extra care should therefore be taken by them when venturing into the cryptocurrency field.
What do you think?