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Hortensis

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10. The health insurance industry is obsolete

Tue Jan 29, 2019, 02:15 PM

Jan 2019

as a healthcare delivery system. It was meant to help people pay unexpected bills they couldn't reasonably afford to save for and used underwriting to set the price. Most people died before or not long after serious bills were incurred because good treatments didn't exist.

Now, we use healthcare for routine health maintenance. For several decades.

The man's an idiot and/or cynically appealing to idiots. My guess is both.

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