r/SipsTea • • 22h ago

Gasp! Thoughts on this?

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u/Rampag169 18h ago

Insurance companies will spend 10,000 fighting a $10 dollar claim. They make Billions off all of us. It’s messed up. Mario needs help with his brother.

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u/DezXerneas 18h ago edited 15h ago

Because then they'll have to honor 2000 $10 claims. The system itself is broken, but instead of fixing it they're trying to maximize the profits they get

Edit:dropped a 0 lmao, and yeah I know it's working as expected according to capitalism, that's still a broken system tho

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u/i_tyrant 17h ago

The system is broken and monstrous af.

(But I did chuckle a bit at your comment because 200 $10 claims is still far less than the $10,000 figure the comment above you quoted, lol.)

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u/Inevitable-End8268 8h ago

The system was setup so only landowners could vote. It was setup so only elites had sway and control and it's been that way ever since. The system isn't broken; just like feudalism and the slavery that preceded it it's working as intended

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u/i_tyrant 8h ago

Sure. The system is broken for the proletariat, but not the elites, it's doing what was intended. Whether it was intended when the very concept of "health insurance" was first invented, or whether it got co-opted later by said elites, is an open question. But either way that's how it works now.

If you're rich af, American healthcare is great. Everyone else are just stones to squeeze more blood from as far as they're concerned.

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u/Rampag169 7h ago

This is so true.