Re:Waymo gets green light in California to pick up passenger...
by vmurthy on Thursday July 04, 2019 @08:53AM
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Bang on about the incentives part. I don't quite know about the healthcare system in the US but don't they have incentives to prevent diseases?
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Re:Waymo gets green light in California to pick up passenger...
by bildung on Thursday July 04, 2019 @10:03AM
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I'm just another armchair economist, but in a market based system the risk IMO is that the insuree grabs the preventive offers from insurer A and a few years later wanders off to a competitor with cheaper rates for that age bracket. So insurer A has no real incentive to prevent illnesses because in the long term, all insurees will switch anyway.