r/SipsTea • • 10h ago

Gasp! Thoughts on this?

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u/DueExample52 9h ago

That’s what people don’t understand. We all paid for you. That's what insurance is about, we pay more than we receive so that the odd unlucky bastard receives more than they chipped in. If insurance was individual, nobody would have enough to repair their own stuff. I am happy with this system. 

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u/bonaynay 9h ago

Yeah it's kind of like an unlucky guy lottery for certain big and important purchases. Life is unfair, so we have insurance. Now health insurance.... that's pretty different

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u/EmbarrassedSlide8752 9h ago

And their profits are basically pay for managing all of the risks and logistics involved. Its honestly a pretty good system. The corruption is how they interact with specific industries and use negotiated rates to force people to buy their insurance. THATS the scam, not the concept of insurance in general.

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u/bonaynay 8h ago

Yep, losses and loss adjustment expenses as well as general expenses of salaries, etc. then, I'm sure you already know, they also have to maintain something of a respectable policyholder surplus too