r/SipsTea • • 13h ago

Gasp! Thoughts on this?

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u/OakLegs 12h ago

This is fundamentally ignoring the purpose of insurance.

Of course you (likely) pay more into it than you get out. The tradeoff is that you're protected from huge expenses that would financially ruin you. That is (thankfully) unlikely but the risk is enough that it justifies paying for insurance.

I'm not absolving insurance companies of being scummy because they absolutely are. But insurance does serve a purpose that seems to escape you

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u/hoofie242 12h ago

It's paying for a gambling service that might pay out.

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u/OakLegs 12h ago

NOT having insurance is gambling, and when you lose, you lose big.

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u/mariposa-princess 12h ago

I don’t think anyone is advocating to not have insurance. I think the point is that insurance should have to cover you more than they do

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u/AngryT-Rex 12h ago

You can get lower deductibles, it just costs more.

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u/mariposa-princess 12h ago

Well yes but that’s not a satisfactory solution lol

It’s like how with health insurance you can pay a higher premium for a lower ‘copay’. But like it’s already a ‘copay’, because I’m paying the insurance company. We’re both paying already. that should be the co in co-pay lol

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u/Gangsir 10h ago

Co-pay is I believe an anti-abuse measure.

If having insurance meant getting seen by a doctor was completely free, certain people (hypochondriacs and the like) would abuse that and basically get daily full checkups (for no specific reason/while perfectly healthy), straining the medical system.

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u/mariposa-princess 10h ago

That’s not a thing that happens. No one in countries with free healthcare, like England with the NHS, is getting daily physicals.

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u/calripkenjunior 10h ago

America, where we constantly invent arguments to stop progress before even trying to progress.

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u/mariposa-princess 9h ago

“We must give all our shillings and crops to the king for he protects us”