That's very easy to suggest. The challenge is to come up with a scheme where individual actors' interests cause their behaviour to be aligned with our goals for the system as a whole.
This is extremely hard to do. It isn't at all clear that it's even possible. Merely suggesting it isn't enough; to add something valuable to the discourse, you really need to describe the scheme itself, and that scheme needs to have a credible chance of success.
Re:Health insurance companies are useless
by amaccuish on Wednesday August 07, 2019 @03:18PM
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> Insurance is the type of thing that I believe the Blockchain could really solve
There's always one...
Re:Health insurance companies are useless
by athenot on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @01:46PM
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How is that different from a regular single-payer system found in many countries?
Re:Health insurance companies are useless
by xtracto on Tuesday August 06, 2019 @03:20PM
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In that it is not managed by the government. I don't have a problem with that (I myself live in a country with socialized medicine), but it seems that a lot of people in the USA don't like the government meddling into some of their business.
We can have third-party "evaluators" that anonymously evaluate and guarantee the reality of the medical claim, and let the network approve or reject the claim based on those evaluations.