The cost of group insurance is about to increase more than it has in 20 years. All of the buzzwords are breaking healthcare: COVID, GLP-1s, even AI (which, so far, is mainly being used to help providers bill more). You should learn about Thatch.
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Thatch: Employee Choice as Solution to Workplace Incentive Problems
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That means that this is one of the rare Big Problems that I write about that you can help fix, by considering offering Thatch to your employees. I'm an investor, and biased, but I really do think that giving individuals choice is the best way to fix the incentives that plague
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Individual Health Insurance Market Dynamics and Competitive Flywheel Effect
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The way health insurance works, as more people switch to the individual market via @thatch_ai and ICHRA, individual coverage gets cheaper and better while small group coverage gets worse and more expensive. Then, the same flywheel can happen in the mid-market. Then, eventually,
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Software Solves Healthcare Problems Through Incentive Restructuring
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I believe that most of the big problems left to solve need to be solved with hardware + software. But occasionally, regulation and societal shifts present the opportunity for software to solve really big problems. Healthcare is one. It is an incentive problem. It's breaking
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Healthcare System Incentives Critical for Gene Editing Drug Adoption
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A few months ago, @patrickc made the point that in order to take advantage of gene editing drugs, we need to change the incentives of the healthcare system. This is true for all sorts of modern scientific miracles, from cancer screens to GLP-1s.
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Thatch: Curing American healthcare through incentives and choice
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Thatch: Curing American healthcare through incentives and choice
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ICHRA: Shifting US Healthcare from Employer Plans to Individual Choice
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The American healthcare system seems hopelessly broken. It is not. Just as a small quirk in the tax code shifted retirement plans from pensions to 401(k)s, ICHRA can shift insurance from employee-sponsored to individual choice. A Deep Dive on healthcare, ICHRA, & Thatch:
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Consumer Strain and Economic Challenges Impact Tech Revenue Growth
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If you managed to break even or slightly beat Sept rev numbers YoY you should feel proud. On top of all the Meta chaos + terrible political assassination + Jimmy Kimmel situation we continue to face a consumer stretched sooooooo thin. This morning's news that August job
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Service Quality and Worker Engagement Issues in Portugal
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Yep because service quality is shit and people don't care about their work esp in Portugal
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AI Set to Replace Experienced Professionals More Than Juniors
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Les juniors remplacés par l'IA à court terme. Mais ce sont les profils plus expérimentés qui vont rapidement être remplacés : ils sont beaucoup plus rentables à automatiser car plus chers. Les cadres en entreprises étaient déjà substituables, ils sont desormais des commodités.
