I am a person working in the health sector. ~
then why don't you start from yourself?that is the problem with most cases who ask about adoption, everyone should start from their own. start accepting bitcoin as payment, start asking people to pay you as payment (like asking your employee), start spending your bitcoin wherever you can, start asking others to accept bitcoin payments.
Because obviously he does not own the hospital and thus he can't just start accepting bitcoin for medical billing?
I think this comes down to the lack of hype of bitcoin to the merchants. When we, the consumers or the bitcoin users, start asking for people to accept bitcoin or even ask if they do accept bitcoin as payment, something starts to happen. They start to gain interest on what it is and why did some guy just asked to pay using that kind of money. I'd say it takes time, a lot of time, but it can be shorten if we don't become such a sheep waiting for just the adoption to happen but be a shepherd and start the hype by ourselves.
In my country, though, bills can be paid using bitcoins via the local exchange. Electric bills, phone bills, etc. but I don't think you can pay medical bills. It's just a matter of time until hospitals start to participate since it's not that hard and it's a lot more efficient although it's totally possible that some hospitals would only want to be paid in cash.
all that can happen if the state endorses bitcoin as a transaction tool, but if the state prohibits it it will not happen, because a transaction using bitcoin requires state permission