It seems if this works on small scale it should scale up. The one counter-force to keep in mind are the rent seekers in this space; they can afford to ignore a small quirky operation but fighting this at scale is existential for them. You might actually need Amazon scale to fight them.
For reference on political forces around this:
Obama said, continuing on the healthcare theme. “Everybody who supports single-payer healthcare says, ‘Look at all this money we would be saving from insurance and paperwork.’ That represents 1 million, 2 million, 3 million jobs of people who are working at Blue Cross Blue Shield or Kaiser or other places. What are we doing with them? Where are we employing them?”
I had that thought too, but I couldn’t really think of a somewhat plausible argument lobbyists could use. “Visiting a doctor without insurance isn’t fair for patients, because you could unexpectedly have to pay a lot of money, and thus we shouldn’t allow patients to put themselves in this position”?
It seems if this works on small scale it should scale up. The one counter-force to keep in mind are the rent seekers in this space; they can afford to ignore a small quirky operation but fighting this at scale is existential for them. You might actually need Amazon scale to fight them.
For reference on political forces around this:
Obama said, continuing on the healthcare theme. “Everybody who supports single-payer healthcare says, ‘Look at all this money we would be saving from insurance and paperwork.’ That represents 1 million, 2 million, 3 million jobs of people who are working at Blue Cross Blue Shield or Kaiser or other places. What are we doing with them? Where are we employing them?”
https://www.thenation.com/article/mr-obama-goes-washington/
I had that thought too, but I couldn’t really think of a somewhat plausible argument lobbyists could use. “Visiting a doctor without insurance isn’t fair for patients, because you could unexpectedly have to pay a lot of money, and thus we shouldn’t allow patients to put themselves in this position”?