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google bought the insurance startup

• shadowgovt 6y ago
  What insurance startup? Are we talking hypotheticals here or concrete action Google is undertaking? I agree that Google + FitBit + Google owning a health insurance company would be suspect, but I'm unaware of them buying a health insurance company. Certainly, if the concern is government intervention, the intervention should hold off until an insurance startup is actually on the table?
  • meroes 6y ago
    Oh totally hypothetical sorry frighten, was just continuing the theme I saw in the previous posts I do see insurance startups on HN from time to time so I think the idea isn't totally far fetched though
  • m16ghost 6y ago
    Alphabet owns a company called Verily, which is entering the health reinsurance space: https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/25/21401124/alphabet-verily-insurance-coefficient-stop-loss https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/25/21401124/alphabet-verily-... Verily already has its own smartwatch though.