[losteverything]

When i think of disruption i think of uber. Rides where none could happen before.

What will their disruption be?

How about delinking insurance to healthcare. Let me buy healthcare the day i need it. And nothing the day after i dont.

No more having healthy people pay for sick people: no more young pay for the old.

Create something we cant imagine; like uber; like Facebook

[whoami_nr]

"No more having healthy people pay for sick people"

This is actually a dangerous mentality to have in a generic sense. However, having a healthcare system where rich(er) people bear the brunt of the poor actually makes sense and has even worked out well in some countries in EU.

[greysonp]

I mean, you can always pay for healthcare the day you need it. It's just incredibly expensive.

And don't forget, one day you'll be old or sick, so I hope you have a lot of money saved :)

[losteverything]

Im talking about totally thinking differently, not the current situation.

About having a lot of money saved....after a prosthetic implant i added up stuff. $143,000 spent on insurance since 2005. Part employer part me. Up until the prosthetic less than $5k (if that) on health. $143k is almost 3 years pay. I would have rather had it paid to me. Then i would have spent my money for my healthcare

[dna_polymerase]

Disruption and Uber?

What kind of rides were enabled by Uber, that couldn't be done by cab?

[losteverything]

My thinking. Cab supply and ease.

I work at a retailer where 20-30% more probably) use their phone to get to work. Its affordable and allows taking the job. $5 to get home. Cabs were $11 and importantly unreliable.

Have a phone; get a ride anytime.

And.. A person i work with finishes her shift and turns "on" her Uber driver mode and instantly becomes a cab. Uber is an on/off switch for cab supply. To me that is very different.

Imo before uber one could not even think transportation was easy.

Its not the Pepsi Generation it's the Uber Generation