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Comment by MichaelZuo

How does the concept of health insurance, risk pooling, etc., make sense if there are no lifetime maximums…?

Eventually 100% of the population will need healthcare of some type.

And without maximums to plan and set prices against, wouldn’t it just be a wealth transfer scheme from the relatively young and healthy to the particularly old and sick…? (With those in the middle roughly neutral)

At least I can’t see any credible way to insure against something 100% of all possible customers will need.

parent MichaelZuo 1 year ago

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