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Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

I’m nowhere close to the insurance industry but I had sort of noticed from various stories.

The idea I had of what insurance is supposed to do seems to be based on how it works in Canada. If you want to take a big risk on losing your car, home, license or whatever then paying insurance even a high amount make sense.

Comparitively in the US, particularly in healthcare you seem screwed whether you get insurance or not. Americans get the freedom to pay hundreds of dollars a month, just to have to pay a minimum of more thousands if something does happen. In Canada, we don’t have universal dental yet and a full checkup, xray, cleaning and fluoride without insurance is about 600 CAD or ~440USD. I don’t know how much dental costs down South…

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Cagi@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Yeah, insurance is a fundamental, necessary piece of civilization and has existed since before Hammurabi. But it has also been abused by profiteers since then too, and it’s not always easy to tell the difference. In a cut-throat, free market, capitalist driven economy, the incentive is to cover nothing for high premiums. A scam, essentially. Add a law where corporations are people and unlimited political donations is free speech and you’ll have enourmous pressure put on politicians to keep the insurance industry unregulated (except making buying it mandatory). Thus Geiko is allowed to exist. Lower premiums, but you are essentially uninsured for anything more than a minor fender bender. Paying premiums for nothing. This is bad for everyone involved in an accident except the insurance companies.

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- dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  
  In a cut-throat, free market, capitalist driven economy, the incentive is to cover nothing for high premiums. A scam, essentially.
  
  Wouldn’t that deter potential clients from purchasing your products though and go with the competitor who actually offers better terms?
  
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  - AA5B@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Not if you have an anthropomorphic lizard telling you to buy theirs
    
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    dubyakay@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
    Shit, I’m not from the US, but now I’ve realized that their ads are so pervasive, I’ve seen them before as well. And now I also realized that we have a Canadian equivalent.
    
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mihnt@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
Teeth are optional in the U.S…

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- T00l_shed@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago
  Luxury bones. Same in Canada. Also eyes are Luxury organs.
  
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