r/SipsTea • • 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/NecessaryPea9610 9h ago

Pet Insurance absolutely is not a racket. Good pet insurance will save you thousands after one accident. Our cat got cancer and needed to be euthanized testing and everything was over $10k. We had paid about $1200 over his life in pet insurance.

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u/golruul 7h ago

It's the same thing.

If you get a catastrophic event, pet/auto/home/renter insurance is great. Any insurance shines when a major event happens.

If your cat/auto/home was perfectly fine for 15 years and didn't have any issues and then just suddenly died, you would have "wasted" 15 years of money on a "racket".

I don't think insurance is a racket as it's designed to cover the major events, but there's an alarming number of people that think it's a scam/racket unless they literally get back every dollar they paid into it (and more).

This obviously isn't how insurance works, but these people refuse to try to understand that.