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>Similarly insurance and healthcare businesses must also be on a transparent block chain

How is blockchain the answer to this at all?

He might just mean "Merkle tree with digital signatures", which most people intimately familiar with block chain won't distinguish from block chain, despite the former being in general use in the software industry and the latter in general use by Ponzi schemes.

For all those downvoting the parent:

https://www.psjhealth.org/news/2019/02/psjh-acquires-lumedic

I firmly believe blockchain is over hyped, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t have its potential use cases. Medical payers/providers are in fact giving it serious consideration.

I don't see an implementation of blockchain that would address this, especially considering blockchain is intended to be trustless.

And make everyone's health history public? Why couldn't the government do something similar but with more privacy?