Pet insurance. Actuarial pricing for a dependent that never had it.
It is a financial instrument.
It exists to relieve Pets get sick and vets are expensive. That is the whole reason it is here: nothing enters this map without a human problem behind it.
It could not exist without Actuarial science and Insurance regulation. These are the quiet preconditions — remove any one and the solution stops working.
5 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
4 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.
- SolutionPet insurance
- FrictionPets get sick and vets are expensive
- SolutionPets
- FrictionFriends and spouse begin to die
- Life phaseRetirement
- Rooted inBelonging
- Rooted inMortality
- Rooted inScarce resources
Relieves
Requires
Who sells it
| Organisation | Value | Type | Products |
|---|---|---|---|
| IDEXX Laboratories | $45B | public · IDXX | veterinary diagnostics |
| Synchrony Financial | $25B | public · SYF | store credit cards, CareCredit for medical and vet bills |
| Trupanion | $2B | public · TRUP | pet insurance |
| Mars | private | Banfield and VCA vet clinics, Royal Canin, Pedigree | |
| Nationwide Mutual | mutual | auto, home, life |