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Re:NY Insurers Can Evaluate Social Media Use If They Can Pro... by ssivark on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @08:20PM (#19041372)
What about (at least partial) cost reduction due to decreased bureaucracy of collecting data and segmenting population demographics and customizing premiums?
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Re:NY Insurers Can Evaluate Social Media Use If They Can Pro... by conanbatt on Thursday January 31, 2019 @10:56AM (#19045621)
If you expand a government program 10x fold, its bureaucracy costs will expand >10x fold. Medicare as it is today is already bigger than its national counterparts, and it still has great administrative costs.

There are some benefits in government administration, but "efficiency" is not one of them.

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