The public plan does not cover everything. Created by public coverage: a market in what it leaves out.
This is a need. Something a person cannot ignore. Non-negotiable, usually urgent, and the most reliable foundation for a business. It is felt by the individual, continuously, and rates 3 out of 5 for the pressure it exerts.
It is rooted in Scarce resources and Uncertainty.
This friction did not arise on its own. It was created by Public health insurance for the old — a solution to an earlier problem that produced this one.
The market has answered it in 2 ways: Supplemental and advantage plans and Prescription drug plans
Its neighbourhood
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The line back to a human being
3 hops from a person at a phase of life. The further a thing sits from the person, the more abstract it looks — and the more it tends to be mistaken for something that came from nowhere.
- FrictionThe public plan does not cover everything
- SolutionPublic health insurance for the old
- FrictionThe body costs more each year
- Life phaseRetirement
- Rooted inMortality
- Rooted inSafety
- Rooted inScarce resources
- Rooted inUncertainty
Relieved by
Every one of these is a business, an institution or a habit built on this single pressure.