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Originally Posted by Nate the great
This I can respond to.
First of all, where are you located, ZSB? I want to understand your viewpoint.
You're upset becuase you think I'm gaming the system. You think I should pay at 30 becuase I will need it at 50. I disagree. In a given year, I pay for insurance based on the probability of needing it. I do not pay for it based on whether I will need it 10 years from now.
I do not pay to support a "system", I pay based on the probability of my own need.
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Wow... that's just horrible imo. Over the matter of a life span you will be gaming the system with that attitude.
One thing is to reject insurance, government health care and so forth. An entirely different thing is to exploit a system which is build on the foundation that we all pay a median as insurance so that we don't have to sell our houses if we get a costly disease. What you do is maximising your advantage at the cost of everyone else. All the people out there paying insurance all their lives pay a higher median because you only insure yourself when the probability of having to use the insurance is high.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but that is just completely unacceptable in a democratic society. You are a consumer, not at citizen.