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What's the over/under on how long before this yields a discount in Amazon's joint healthcare venture? One year? Two years? I figure it's only a matter of time
by technofiend 6y ago
What's the over/under on how long before this yields a discount in Amazon's joint healthcare venture? One year? Two years? I figure it's only a matter of time. Employers can't make this mandatory without losing some face, but they can effectively make it mandatory by tying it to a few hundred dollar a month discount.
- dakna 6y agoGetting discounts for habits that reduce healthcare costs is not unusual, gym membership or health coaching sessions are already incentivized and you get some money reimbursed. These are one-size-fits-all, the amount of discount is not personalized. I'm not an insurance expert, but I think services like this, that generate personal data over time, pose the risk of calculating the individual insurance risk much better if the insurance underwriter can evaluate this data on an ongoing basis. It has the potential to skew the risk distribution for all other insurance members in the pool including premium adjustments for people who are not handing over their data.