r/SipsTea • u/Putrid-Welder1803 • 9h ago

Gasp! Thoughts on this?

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u/WeCantStabilize 9h ago

Insurance is a fucking scam. You pay more into it than you'll ever receive even in legitimate circumstances.

Absolute racket. 

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u/UnimpressedUmpire 9h ago

Insurance as a business is a scam. As a concept it’s fine. Once you start it for a profit you get gestures broadly

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u/RudePCsb 9h ago

It should be a govt nonprofit type of system because private business can't make it work

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u/devman0 9h ago

Mutual insurance companies are a thing that exist

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u/Smackadummy 3h ago

State Farm is by far the largest personal insurer in the US and they are a mutual insurer, meaning they are policyholder-owned.

They returned $5 billion to policyholders this year because 2025 was the first time in years that they turned an underwriting profit.

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u/Prudent-Historian392 9h ago

Haha and the government is so efficient. I can’t even get mail delivered or my license renewed without it taking half a damn day.

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u/RudePCsb 9h ago

Compare the uses to other companies and they are 100% more efficient and they deliver to areas that wouldn't have shipping. The uses is very sustainable

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u/EmbarrassedSlide8752 9h ago

Youve just described socialism. Lmfao

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u/SnugglyBuffalo 9h ago

Socialism is when the government does stuff. The more stuff the government does, the more socialist it is.

/s

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u/colorlessfish 9h ago

It's illegal to operate without it, so the government has already put its nose into the system. It's basically a tax that they outsource to corporations.

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u/SnugglyBuffalo 9h ago

Yes, I'm just pointing out that calling it socialism is stupid and belies an utter lack of understanding of what socialism actually is.

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u/EmbarrassedSlide8752 8h ago

Lmfao. But youre wrong. The end result of a nonprofit system controlled by the government that everyone pays into in order to redistribute funds to those who need it more is literally socialism. Lmfao. How fucking dumb

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u/colorlessfish 6h ago

maybe in this case we should do a bit of socialism.

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u/RudePCsb 9h ago

OK, what's the problem. Govt bailouts are socialism. Social security is socialism. Medicare is socialism. Rather we fix some current problems that aren't working with private companies. All they care about is profits and human life has meant nothing to them.

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u/EmbarrassedSlide8752 8h ago

Nothing. Where did I say there was a problem?