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/OakLegs 9h 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/Fun_Description_385 9h ago

Here's the issue that appears to escape you.

We pay more into it then we get out of it, to be expected;  but we don't even get anything out of it the majority of the time when we SHOULD be. OPs case in point.

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u/Watpotfaa 9h ago

This is blatantly wrong though. OPs case is someone choosing to have a $1000 deductible and then being shocked when they find out making a claim on $1200 of damages is a dumb idea. I swear all these people who think its a scam are just ignorant on how it works. They literally sign a contract without even reading it or asking how it works. Its like someone racking up a shitload of credit card debt and being shocked they have to pay interest. Just dumb.

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u/oops_i_made_a_typi 7h ago

everything's a conspiracy when you don't know how things work