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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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