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SWBTATTReg

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5. Oh, so is the industry going to rebate all of us that money they have already recieved as ...
Wed Apr 29, 2020, 02:18 PM
Apr 2020

premiums for the last 10-20 years to taxpayers? They willing took on the risks, they alone deserve what they get. If they go out of business, so be it. Their assets should be seized and used to pay outstanding claims.

First, make all travel insurers pay out even in a pandemic. Then tell sinkingfeeling Apr 2020 #1
+ agree. I have overseas trip pending for Septemeber. My current thinking is that CV-19 outbreak iluvtennis Apr 2020 #18
I am booked for 6 week trip and have paid about $23K. Waiting to sinkingfeeling Apr 2020 #22
Aww no...I should always put myself in others shoes. MY ex told me today that it the airline iluvtennis Apr 2020 #28
Imagine that. sandensea Apr 2020 #2
I believe that's called "privatizing the profits, socilizing the losses". n/t PoliticAverse Apr 2020 #3
The IMAGE! Newest Reality Apr 2020 #4
Nice pic... and you ain't wrong. Greedy f**king arses. NotHardly Apr 2020 #24
Oh, so is the industry going to rebate all of us that money they have already recieved as ... SWBTATTReg Apr 2020 #5
Fuck that!!! The insurance companies are little more than legalized gambling companies and cstanleytech Apr 2020 #6
If they had socialized risk from the beginning of insurance bucolic_frolic Apr 2020 #7
Nobody wants bigger handouts than Big Biz. . . . nt Bernardo de La Paz Apr 2020 #8
So the insurance companies intend to honor those that currently have a pandemic insurance rider? Freethinker65 Apr 2020 #9
Who has pandemic insurance? FBaggins Apr 2020 #13
I read somewhere that someone had actually paid for such a policy and the claim was being denied? Freethinker65 Apr 2020 #17
Only one I've read about is Wimbledon... Blasphemer Apr 2020 #19
The responses here don't fit the story FBaggins Apr 2020 #10
In other words, they are in it for fair weather profit and want to socialize the risk... slumcamper Apr 2020 #12
Maybe in general... but not in this case FBaggins Apr 2020 #16
we get it. Voltaire2 Apr 2020 #15
That is an issue between the customers and the insurance companies to hash out its not one cstanleytech Apr 2020 #21
Another fair-weather capitalist sector sobbing for a handout when shit gets real? slumcamper Apr 2020 #11
Of course. Socialism for Billionaires. NT. Voltaire2 Apr 2020 #14
But Medicare For All is a SOCIALIST pandemic! LiberalLovinLug Apr 2020 #20
And no Lobbyists who purchase Representatives & Senators... Lock him up. Apr 2020 #26
Yup. LiberalLovinLug Apr 2020 #30
Its a bit misleading. Xolodno Apr 2020 #23
NO catrose Apr 2020 #25
You ain't the only one Rain... BadGimp Apr 2020 #27
But we get no free universal health coverage, while risking our lives? FUCK THAT! SunSeeker Apr 2020 #29
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