According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 46.3 million Americans under age 65 live without health insurance leaving them in hot pursuit of discounted OPD, eye surgery, post-op checkups, teeth whitening, tips on yoga and cooking, and other health related services.
Cognizant with the market stats, Gilt City—a provider of luxurious services—has tuned its group buying model up to tap the huge market of health service seekers.
Rev Up Your Health is a unique program in an active mode currently at its platform. Promising more than half off, the 21-day riveting online program is said to impart health fitness training, consult dietary balance tips, and suggest exercises to the participants. Q/A session is also a part of the cleanse program, hot deals of which can be redeemed by April 09, 2012, according to the website.
Owned by New York’s Gilt Group, Gilt City is famous for its provision of plushy best deals to bon vivants and parenting solutions in partnership with the baby store Giggle to parents and guardians.
The portion of health care deals in all the daily deals is not significant at present. Only one out of 11 deals listed on the platforms belong to health and personal care, US Today reported DealRadar.com.
However, deal sites have started to increase share of such deals in their stocks. “About nine per cent of all offers on daily deal websites in November were for dental work or some kind of medical treatment, up from 4.5 per cent in the beginning of 2011,” McLean-based newspaper cited Dan Hess, CEO and founder of Local Offer Network, as saying.
CDC also said of 172 million Americans under 65 who have private health coverage, 45 million don’t the luxury of dental insurance, said the report.
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