OTOH, if sickness was 100% predictable, those places with nationalized health care (and therefore predictable costs, some level of centralized control over admi

OTOH, if sickness was 100% predictable, those places with nationalized health care (and therefore predictable costs, some level of centralized control over administration, etc.) could deploy resources precisely where needed with minimal waste. In turn, these savings could be passed on to the taxpayers - reduced taxes, basic income support, take your pick. To me, such an upside vastly outweighs the "downside" of driving a spike through the heart of the health insurance industry. (This also points out how, if you see a problem with "market-efficient" distribution, perhaps the problem is with applying market principles to everything and not with the machine learning algorithms.)