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He's looking for health care, actually.
by tilolebo 6y ago
He's looking for health care, actually.
- GCSAQCMIYI 6y agoYes, and he's looking for it to be financed by other people while giving them nothing in return for it.
- switchbak 6y agoI live in a country where we gladly finance the health care of other people without looking for anything in return. I really don't understand the lack of compassion that can ground such an ideology.
- GCSAQCMIYI_2 6y agoI never suggested there was anything wrong with financing health care that way. I don't bring up that he's looking for charity to criticize him or anyone else in his position. I bring it up to point out that in our ridiculous health care system, health insurance companies are making a fortune acting like charities, and it's coming out of their customers' pockets.
- creeble 6y agoThey get the exact same thing, actually. That’s how insurance works (or is supposed to): it spreads the risk among all subscribers.
- GCSAQCMIYI_2 6y ago>They get the exact same thing, actually. Not paid for by him, though, because his premiums wouldn't even cover his own medical expenses. That is the whole reason why health insurance companies would charge much higher premiums to people with pre-existing conditions or would turn them down. >it spreads the risk among all subscribers. Some people are much more likely than others to need expensive medical care. If you charge low risk and high risk people the same amount of money, then on average, the low risk people are going to be paying for a lot more medical care than they consume, and the high risk people are going to be consuming a lot more medical care than they pay for.
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