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Without much fanfare, Verily, Alphabet’s Life Sciences unit, has launched Coefficient Insurance. With Google’s intimate knowledge of our daily patterns, contacts and dreams, the search engine group has for years had a far better picture of risk than any insurer. That Coefficient Insurance would initially focus on the area of stop-loss insurance to protect employers from staff health cost volatility should not obscure its ambitious agenda for the rest of the industry. This is not the first case of a big technology company trying to disrupt the healthcare industry. Not all of these endeavours are equally troublesome; some might even be laudable. Yet, Alphabet’s latest move, shrouded in the rhetoric of reducing the burden on the healthcare system by empowering employees with data about their lifestyles — is likely to prove problematic.
One would need to be extremely naive to believe that a more extensive digital surveillance system is likely to benefit the weak and the poor. Some good might come out of it — a healthier workplace, maybe — but we should also inquire who would bear the cost of this digital utopia.
Privacy law does not offer an adequate solution either. Under pressure from employers, most workers acquiesce to being monitored. This was obvious even before Alphabet’s foray into insurance, as plenty of smaller players have been pitching employers sophisticated workplace surveillance systems as a way of lowering healthcare costs.
Healthcare insurance is a microcosm of the wider problem with the governance of digital society. In today’s unequal digital society, power accrues to those who already have too much of it. Instead of founding institutions that could help the most vulnerable people to better shoulder the risks of digitisation, political parties still hand over the responsibility for taming the tech giants to the technocratic regulators with their existing frameworks, such as antitrust and data protection.
This strategy, after a decade of fits and starts, has failed to bear fruit.
A
The launching of Coefficient Insurance is committed to reforming the existing medical system.
B
The launching of Coefficient Insurance may be welcomed by employees of large companies.
C
The launching of Coefficient Insurance may attempt to subvert the current medical system.
D
The launching of Coefficient Insurance is an effective medical reform.
正确答案 :C
解析
本题为细节理解题。根据第一段“This is not the first case of a big technology company trying to disrupt the healthcare industry. ”可知,这并不是大型科技公司试图颠覆医疗保健行业的第一次案例。因此C项“Coefficient Insurance的推出可能会试图颠覆现行的医疗制度”符合题意。A项“Coefficient Insurance的推出致力于改革现有的医疗体系”没有提到;B项“Coefficient Insurance的推出可能会受到大公司员工的欢迎”没有提到;D项“Coefficient Insurance的推出是一项有效的医疗改革”没有提到。故本题答案为C。
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