MedCity News November 26, 2019
Bind Benefits’ Shawn Wagoner and OMERS Ventures’ Michael Yang tussle over dueling visions of the future of health insurance, specifically whether consumers have the wherewithal to make prudent buying decisions, at a recent Bay Area event.
A lot of bets are being made in the healthcare marketplace around the macro trend of consumerization. The idea is that consumers are demanding convenience and control over their healthcare futures and will flock to any innovation designed to give them both.
But at a Silicon Valley event held recently at HP headquarters to discuss the future of health insurance with a number of different stakeholders, a debate arose between a venture capitalist and one startup. The question centered on whether that macro trend...