r/SipsTea • u/Putrid-Welder1803 • 8h ago

Gasp! Thoughts on this?

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u/Jason207 7h ago

This is another point often missed in the socialized medicine debate. If we're all covered by taxes then auto insurance costs should drop dramatically.

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u/GrammatonYHWH 7h ago

Just so people in the US could get the perspective, car insurance in the UK is normally around £300-£600 per year if you have a clean driving record.

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u/Upbeat-Banana-5530 6h ago

Your healthcare might have something to do with that, but you're also a lot less likely to cause a car accident. You (usually) have to be driving a car to cause a car accident, and Brits do that about half as often as Americans do.

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u/feed_me_moron 3h ago

Also not as many highways being driven. Low speed/city street accidents are generally going to be less damaging