"health insurance in the U.S. is different from other types of insurance and personally I think we'd all be better off it were not even called "insurance.""
Agreed. If regular, predictable events are covered, it is not insurance. Regular, predictable events are not insurable. Be cause math.
Wellness checkups and scheduled preventative care and yearly mammograms/prostate are all fantastic things ... but they're not insurable. If someone is selling "insurance" for those things, you can be certain that you're paying 100% of the cost somewhere.
Agreed. If regular, predictable events are covered, it is not insurance. Regular, predictable events are not insurable. Be cause math.
Wellness checkups and scheduled preventative care and yearly mammograms/prostate are all fantastic things ... but they're not insurable. If someone is selling "insurance" for those things, you can be certain that you're paying 100% of the cost somewhere.