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HNer gets mad at the idea of those with genetic diseases affecting insurance companies' profits even slightly, calls them out as the damn fraudsters they are (news.ycombinator.com)

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[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I 100% agree with him: nobody should subsidize the health insurance of anyone else.

... because all health insurance is a scam to extract the maximum money from the most desperate and instill fear of unexpected bills in the rest.

Fuck health insurance, we need a public healthcare system.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Most societies with public healthcare structure them as insurance, but with the entire population as the recipients and contributions usually linked to income.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Not that my comment was meant to be about health care….. but How do you imagine public health works. ?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Sorry my hyperbolic meme comment was nuanced enough:

Obviously public systems function similarly, my point was that a for profit middleman is a terrible system that we should dismantle.