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Unfortunately this simplistic model plays out like insurance doesn't exist.

Any tragedy works like this: a fire, a life lost to chance, etc. The point of insurace is to pay beforehand to reserve a fund and to distribute the chances in a pool.

One more argument: normally its spoken as is government is the solution to this problem, but the government does not prevent the legs from breaking in this analogy. It just decides B for you and everyone else.



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