Their policies would piggyback on US state unemployment insurance programs, allowing Assura to avoid getting into the monitoring business.

Scientific advances are the fundamental cause of economic progress, and yet many nations often apparently hope to piggyback on discoveries made in more scientifically advanced countries.

Now, just to be clear, in this talk I'm using the name Earth Witness as part of the scenario, simply as a shorthand, for what this imaginary project could aspire to, not to piggyback on the wonderful work of the Witness organization.