And that is why the insurance model should not be used for healthcare. For example, why should an insurance company charge you anything less than the cost of tr

And that is why the insurance model should not be used for healthcare. For example, why should an insurance company charge you anything less than the cost of treating a chronic illness after diagnosis? Why should the minimum price of giving birth not be the exact premium you pay? None of those are surprises (after the initial diagnosis or conception, of course, and it can obviously be argued that birthing complications can be insured against too), so there is no reason to use probabilistic models to pay for them.