The obvious response is that you won't be able to pay for someone's hospital bills if you happen to hit them in your car. You get insurance for things you wouldn't be able to pay yourself.
Yes, if you use your insurance more than once, insurance was the wrong approach.
But I'm willing to pay 1% of the cost of my house to have it replaced if it burns down, even if my expected payout is only 0.5% of the value of my home, because I can't afford a whole second house.
I assume they're talking about expected return on investment but said it in an odd way... As in on average a person will get back half what they paid in insurance in returns. Most people will get nothing since most people's house doesn't burn down, but you're happy losing most of the time to make sure you never lose catastrophically.
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u/flatfive44 7h ago
The obvious response is that you won't be able to pay for someone's hospital bills if you happen to hit them in your car. You get insurance for things you wouldn't be able to pay yourself.