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the problem is that this is a power law gamble. if you lose big (Cancer), it will cost you either your life or your financial life.
by outside1234 14y ago
the problem is that this is a power law gamble. if you lose big (Cancer), it will cost you either your life or your financial life.
- moron4hire 14y agoWhich is actually not that big of a different risk if I had insurance. Just because I have insurance doesn't mean A) that my cancer would be treatable, B) that the treatment would be desirable, or C) that my insurance would be sufficient to cover it. People get screwed over by their insurance companies all the time. In the specific case of cancer, I'm not sure the treatment is worth it. I've seen a lot of people go through really awful treatments that ruined the quality of their last few months/years, only to die anyway. I don't want to put my families through the emotional and financial burden of that. I've personally never seen any insurance that fully covered someone's cancer treatment. In the end, cancer always gets you. You could do everything to try to prevent every other cause of death, but cancer will always eventually get you. That's a big part of why I'm working on the things I care about now, rather than waiting for some nebulous "future" when I have "enough money". That future may never come.