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Yes but consider the alternative - how will we eliminate bias without it?

Having worked in medical billing, it is very scary how medicine as an applied science is carrying around a huge ball and chain of “insurance hasn’t figured out that their medical model is decades out of date.”

Big, complex, data intensify problems are not going to be solved by an army of humans on legacy ERPs.

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I cannot even describe how many problems are caused by medicine being shackled to the whims of insurers in terms of how stultifying it is and how many bad incentives it creates to workaround the limitations of insurance.

No idea how to fix the problem though.

Like every single public good I’ve investigate for social entrepreneurship the answer is:

Start an insurance company

It sounds impossible, but every one of these giants were founded in the past century.

They can be beaten with enough capital, power and ingenuity.

But that’s not gonna be done by a pre-seed startup with $1M in the bank and some cool products.

Genuine change requires a long view and a willingness to compete against a cartel.

Everyone pays the same regardless of age, sex, etc? I understand they things are the way they are but part of change is making difficult decisions and tradeoffs.

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