Vehicle and property insurances are a public good safety measure. If you go and cause serious injury to someone with your vehicle or in your home they have every right to expect to be made whole again. Without that insurance you would personally be liable for those debts. Unless you’re willing to say that those kind of debts are not dischargeable in bankruptcy then insurance to cover them is essential for anyone who doesn’t have a few hundred thousand laying around.
Workers comp is useful much the same way, unless you want that dim employee who cuts their hand off to be the death of your business.
FDIC helps ensure that some fool tanking every asset the bank has won’t leave the depositors holding the bag.
Health insurance is for the vast majority of people required in some form under the rules of the ACA.
Insurance in the most basic sense is a pooling or risk. A universal single payer healthcare system is simply a pool that everyone is a part of by default. There’s a lot to be said for having a single entity to contact for payments, but you can be sure that even if we fully did away with the insurance system as it is today that there’s not going to be a ‘free MRI Wednesday’ in exchange for it. Someone will always be looking to keep a check on who spends howuch on what.
Vehicle and property insurances are a public good safety measure. If you go and cause serious injury to someone with your vehicle or in your home they have every right to expect to be made whole again. Without that insurance you would personally be liable for those debts. Unless you’re willing to say that those kind of debts are not dischargeable in bankruptcy then insurance to cover them is essential for anyone who doesn’t have a few hundred thousand laying around.
Workers comp is useful much the same way, unless you want that dim employee who cuts their hand off to be the death of your business.
FDIC helps ensure that some fool tanking every asset the bank has won’t leave the depositors holding the bag.
Health insurance is for the vast majority of people required in some form under the rules of the ACA.
Insurance in the most basic sense is a pooling or risk. A universal single payer healthcare system is simply a pool that everyone is a part of by default. There’s a lot to be said for having a single entity to contact for payments, but you can be sure that even if we fully did away with the insurance system as it is today that there’s not going to be a ‘free MRI Wednesday’ in exchange for it. Someone will always be looking to keep a check on who spends howuch on what.