The issue of administration and bureaucracy is definitely one the best questions and hardest challenges for new startups trying to tackle these kinds of peer-connected problems. There are entire systems of middle-men built up over long periods of time that up until the internet have been how systems like medical treatment, education, and research funding operate. The biggest factor of inertia in these systems is the system itself.

Sites like Watsi are now making people realize two things: which inefficiencies we can cut away, and that simple experiences like funding medical treatment can be enhanced. Those are two very big revelations that will fuel so much of peer-to-peer funding.