Re:Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Cons...
by sa-code on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @04:30AM
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The point you missed is that when insurance is hyper tailored to specific people, you are basically paying for your own healthcare and can cut out the middle man
Re:Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Cons...
by charcircuit on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @04:46AM
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That is assuming all health related costs can be predicted 100% correctly. If there is a 1/3rd chance to incur a cost then insurance lets you get away with only paying 1/3rd of the cost.
Re:Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Cons...
by adastra22 on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @04:52AM
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Yes, the is the assumption in this hypothetical.
Re:Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Cons...
by charcircuit on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @04:57AM
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In that hypothetical in the best case the insurance company will never lose money by charging someone less than what they will have paid out to them and they will be able to sell this service to other companies, in the worst case they become essentially a bank.
Re:Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Cons...
by soco on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @05:01AM
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Uh, no. Insurance is paying for unlikely events, as it was said above. Greener area or not, you can still get run over by a car, event for which you definitely didn't pay. Or you house struck by lightning, or any such insurance cases might arise. The green area only affects the probability of such events, thus the tailoring.
Re:Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Cons...
by globular-toast on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @07:23AM
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But my point is by hyper-optimising for individuals it will at some point cross a line where it's not really insurance as you understand it any more. The unlikely event is that the insurance company gets it wrong, for example your house floods in an area that was not predicted to flood for millennia. As the insurance company gets better, the chance of an unlikely event gets smaller. How small can that chance get before you decide to just take the risk yourself?
Re:Drugmakers Are Set to Pay 23andMe Millions to Access Cons...
by bossyTeacher on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @06:06AM
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insurance <> healthcare
the point of insurance is to cover for unlikely events not expected events (like you needing increase healthcare support as you age)
Protection from unlikely events.
>If they get it too right they put themselves out of business.
No, they don't. Getting it too right just means they are able to more effectively compete on pricing since they know the lowest price they can offer while still making profit.