Means-tested public care funding. The state pays once the person is poor enough.
It is an institution or public programme.
It exists to relieve Care costs more per year than most people saved. That is the whole reason it is here: nothing enters this map without a human problem behind it.
It could not exist without Social security system. These are the quiet preconditions — remove any one and the solution stops working.
Solving that problem created new ones: To qualify for help you must first lose everything. Follow those and you find the next generation of products built on top of this one.
4 organisations in this map sell it, 3 of them publicly listed.
Its neighbourhood
Everything this entry connects to directly. Click any point to follow it.
The line back to a human being
2 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.
- SolutionMeans-tested public care funding
- FrictionCare costs more per year than most people saved
- Life phaseDecline
- Rooted inScarce resources
Relieves
Created these new problems
Second-order frictions. This is where most of the modern economy actually lives.
Requires
Who sells it
| Organisation | Value | Type | Products |
|---|---|---|---|
| Elevance Health | $80B | public · ELV | Anthem Blue Cross plans, Medicaid managed care, CarelonRx |
| Centene | $15B | public · CNC | Medicaid managed care, marketplace plans |
| Molina Healthcare | $8B | public · MOH | Medicaid and Medicare plans |
| Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services | government | Medicare, Medicaid, Marketplace |