I mean, sure, they also charge for a profit rather than as a social good. My point is just that everyone pooling together resources through regular payments when they don’t need health assistance so that when they do they can pull from it to get the coverage they need is literally the foundation for how insurance works at the abstract and perhaps is a good indicator of why privatized for-profit insurance makes no fucking sense.
Sounds like socialism to me.
Maybe we need a bigger version, funded by those who won’t miss the money.
It’s literally the methodology of…insurance.
I don’t believe that’s how insurance works. They charge people based on perceived risk, not based on how much they can pay
I mean, sure, they also charge for a profit rather than as a social good. My point is just that everyone pooling together resources through regular payments when they don’t need health assistance so that when they do they can pull from it to get the coverage they need is literally the foundation for how insurance works at the abstract and perhaps is a good indicator of why privatized for-profit insurance makes no fucking sense.
But how would they swim if they paid for all our avocado toast?