TakeAStepBack
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Health insurance.....any insurance.....is pure socialism. Except it's done by a corporation with shareholders instead of a central government.
When a carrier takes a hit for a claim what do they do, if they pay it or not? They pass the losses amongst their pool of policy holders. They don't take the hit even though they may have collected 1000 times what that claim may be. THEY SPREAD THE LOSSES AROUND....and keep the premiums.
You should hear the bitching up here from the people in southeast PA whose property insurance has skyrocketed even though their homes were not affected by Sandy last year. Go anywhere in the country where there has been a natural disaster. The insurance companies are NOT taking the hit. The policy holders are.
Insurance is the biggest fraud ever and health insurance is the worst form of this fraud because a consumer can choose to own a home, car, boat, commercial business, etc. But you cannot choose to be born.
Your house: Average home owner.
Their house: Hartford Insurance headquarters, Hartford, CT
Who's getting fucked here?
Up until Obama Tax, health insurance was not mandatory. Which means its not socialist. Ther eis a giant difference between mandatory and voluntary procurement of an insurance policy. So, you're wrong about it being socialism. Not to mention socialism is a form of government control. Equating it to a market force is entirely ignorant.