Then the taxpayer should be capturing all the value the insurance companies provide. If they are only insuring the wealthy and healthy and the government pays for the rest, that’s a rather raw deal for the taxpayer.

Also I hope you never have my DNA. I can’t think of a reason why you should, and for one possible exercise on why you shouldn’t, please watch Gattaca.

I actually think that basic health care should be covered by taxpayers and we should not have private insurance companies profiting in that space.

As for your DNA: Do you take the precautions of the protagonist in Gattaca? How do you avoid leaving DNA samples in public places? How long before drones/bots/Roombas are hoovering this up at the behest of some VC?

It sounds like we are in violent agreement then: if insurance companies are allowed to exist the way they do today, they can’t have access to all the information. I like your solution to the dilemma of just not having private insurance companies :D

Re DNA precautions: We just need to make hovering up DNA illegal, or selling insurance, or selling anything based on the genetic information gathered from people; make it all illegal, so I don’t have to worry about it in the same way I don’t have to worry about insurance companies breaking into my house to spy on me.

I don't see how making collection of DNA data illegal could be enforced. It seems inevitable to me that such data will be widely available.

>I actually think that basic health care should be covered by taxpayers and we should not have private insurance companies profiting in that space.

What happens when someone gets their genetic information released in a country with public healthcare, and then moves to a country with private healthcare?

I expect that to be an adverse and inevitable outcome.