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- From: jdahl@rchland.vnet.ibm.com (Jared Dahl)
- Subject: Re: Rush -- Insurance and AIDS
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- Date: Thu, 24 Dec 1992 15:31:09 GMT
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- In article <Bzr27M.E70@news.cso.uiuc.edu>, vengeanc@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu () writes:
- |> dickw@IASTATE.EDU (Richard Wallingford) writes:
- |>
- |> >Rush was talking about people whose insurance gets canceled when it
- |> >is found that they have AIDS. He thinks it's just fine that they're
- |> >canceled because they caused their own condition (he used the analogy
- |> >that fire insurance won't pay if you set your own house on fire).
-
- So hemopheliacs and AIDS babies caused their own condition?
- Rush just doesn't think before he talks sometimes.
-
- |> >I don't think Rush understands insurance very well. First, his
- |> >analogy is faulty because fire insurance *will* cover accidental
- |> >fires started by the homeowner (i.e. grease fire) and most AIDS
- |> >cases are contracted by accident (even if there is stupididty and
- |> >ignorance involved).
- |>
- |> >Second, if a person has health insurance *before* he/she gets AIDS,
- |> >then the insurance company should be required to pay up to the maximum
- |> >lifetime benefit of the policy. Risk is the whole principal behind
- |> >insurance coverage. The insurance company is "betting" that you won't
- |> >get sick and you're "betting" that you will. Both parties are agreeing
- |> >to take the financial loss if they lose the "bet" by signing the policy!
- |>
- |> Hmm.. Ever considered this alternate scenario? The insurance company
- |> is investing in your health like it is stock. When the value of that
- |> stock is beginning to decline they sell it off.
-
- Insurance companies have been getting away with this for
- years. They refuse to honor someones VALID insurance policy,
- and then wait for them to die. Often, these people are dead
- before the case gets to court, and the lawsuit dies with them.
- These guys are scam artists and bastards, not businessmen.
-
-
- Jared Dahl
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