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They hated health insurance. So they started paying for each other’s care.

By TIME  
   March 24, 2025

CrowdHealth, which was founded in 2021, offers a new take on an old idea.

For decades, religious health-sharing ministries with names like Medi-Share and Samaritan Ministries have asked communities to pitch in for the medical bills of strangers. CrowdHealth has no spiritual affiliation; it’s a peer-to-peer financial-technology company that allows its roughly 10,000 paying members to make payments toward fellow members’ medical expenses. 

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