I just did a quick google search and everything that I found suggested that the Inuit people are LESS healthy because they only eat meat. They have a lifespan 12 years lower than the rest of Canada.
One thing that's interesting is that it actually doesn't tell you if more people are moving in or out, despite the title. The size of SF doesn't change when I click inbound/outbound.
They raised ~$8million from Benchmark and Omidyar. It's pretty interesting that Benchmark Capital invested in a corporation that "is dedicated to creating public benefit." Not at all surprising to get it from Omidyar, of course.
not at all... medicare is cheaper than private insurance because hospitals that receive public funds are required to accept it. In that case, private industry (and you and I) are subsidizing medicare. That doesn't equate to well run
We looked at Recurly too... You are wrong that you can just zero out the gateway numbers in the calculators. Recurly charges 1.25% + 10 cents (http://recurly.com/pricing). 1.25% is a CRAPLOAD. Using a merchant account from FeeFighters would for us end up costing something like 2.1% + 20cents for the merchant account but then we'd have to pay an additional 1.25% + 10cents to Recurly, making it a total of 3.35% + 30 cents, far more than Stripe. Plus there's a $69 minimum fee, which sucks when you are starting out
Chargify (http://chargify.com) or Spreedly (http://spreedly.com) + Samurai (http://samurai.feefighters.com) is going to be significantly cheaper in our case (we expect to ramp to $30k/sales/mo). I'll pretty-up and share the google spreadsheet I used shortly. Stripe is still the best option if you have low transaction size and low volume (I think it was <$6k/mo). Other than that it was either chargify+samurai or spreedly+samurai (depending on the number of transactions because of chargify's tricky pricing)
Why not include Samurai (http://samurai.feefighters.com)? Seems like it would be cheaper than the other ones and the api docs look breezy like stripes. It's only 2.3% + 30cents. Also look at Spreedly for recurring.
I was a management consultant in the healthcare industry in a previous life. One interesting study I did found a direct correlation between percent of patients on medicare/medicaid and hospital profitability...
The higher the percent of medicare and medicaid patients, the lower the profitability. The correlation was essentially a straight line.
http://samurai.feefighters.com
Doesn't have recurring billing built in (we didnt need it) but I think they might connect to chargify. We ended up choosing Samurai for the lower fees.