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Sin_of_Onin  Posts: 1,307
Registered: 2005-6-29 08:21:12
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Abaddon_Ambrosius posted:
Sin_of_Onin posted:
It is cheaper than an abortion too. From the standpoint of the insurance company it not only costs zero but less than zero.
Only if we keep proceeding from the flawed assumption that they should cover intervention to un-do the totally predictable, probable result of an optional leisure activity.
Which is a pretty stupid assumption.
What does "should" have to do with it? If it costs them less to cut the thing in half they will offer you that option.
Don't you know anything about economics?
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Yukishiro1 Posts: 3,243
Registered: 2002-9-20 23:52:57
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Abaddon_Ambrosius posted:
Health insurance shouldn't cover abortions or maternity or children either.
Did I call that or what? 
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Abaddon_Ambrosius Title: Retired Theurgist TL
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Yukishiro1 posted:
But health insurance shouldn't cover abortions or maternity or children either because children are also totally avoidable luxuries!!111
Children are a predictable result of a natural act. They're not an 'undoing' of something you CHOSE to do...
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Groucho48  Posts: 821
Registered: 2003-10-22 03:00:14
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Abaddon_Ambrosius posted:
Sin_of_Onin posted:
It is cheaper than an abortion too. From the standpoint of the insurance company it not only costs zero but less than zero.
Only if we keep proceeding from the flawed assumption that they should cover intervention to un-do the totally predictable, probable result of an optional leisure activity.
Which is a pretty stupid assumption.
So, insurance shouldn't cover broken legs from skiing?
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Abaddon_Ambrosius Title: Retired Theurgist TL
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Yukishiro1 posted:
Abaddon_Ambrosius posted:
Health insurance shouldn't cover abortions or maternity or children either.
Did I call that or what?
Uhm... only in your mind and via fake quoting, "dude".
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paulg_68 Posts: 2,469
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Groucho48 posted:
Explain how covering it makes it more expensive. You posted some gibberish about it earlier, but, it didn't make much sense. As I linked, studies show it lowers insurance costs.
Were you aware that insurance and birth control pills are not the same thing?
Groucho48 posted:
My thinking is that, if it saves insurance companies 15-17%, the riders they would offer could easily cut the overall insurance premium by 5% and everyone saves money.
Women taking birth control lowers the cost of providing insurance. This is true whether they pay more for birth control pills or less for birth control pills. In fact the benefits are exactly the same regardless of which price they pay. As such, it's actually cheaper overall if they pay less for the birth control pills when you factor in both the cost of insurance and the cost of birth control pills.
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Yukishiro1 Posts: 3,243
Registered: 2002-9-20 23:52:57
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Abaddon_Ambrosius posted:
Yukishiro1 posted:
But health insurance shouldn't cover abortions or maternity or children either because children are also totally avoidable luxuries!!111
Children are a predictable result of a natural act. They're not an 'undoing' of something you CHOSE to do...
Wtf? So if you mistakenly get pregnant we won't pay for an abortion because that would be undoing something you chose to do but we will pay for the kid's health care for 20 years? And we won't pay for contraception in the first place because there's no need for that either?
Did you learn this approach in MBA school or something?
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Abaddon_Ambrosius Title: Retired Theurgist TL
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Groucho48 posted:
So, insurance shouldn't cover broken legs from skiing?
Keep trying. Go back to my original definition.
Breaking your leg is not the predictable, intended, designed outcome from skiing. That's an unintended consequence one should be "insured" by... "insurance"... against. No?
How do you "insure" against something that's going to happen predictably when you're doing something designed to cause that very outcome?
You guys are like 2 steps behind me. Keep trying, though. At least the post count is picking up.
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Sin_of_Onin Posts: 1,307
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I think the real lesson of this thread is that AA and paul are too stupid to go into the insurance industry.
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Yukishiro1 Posts: 3,243
Registered: 2002-9-20 23:52:57
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Why is birth control covered by insurance? |
Abaddon_Ambrosius posted:
Breaking your leg is not the predictable, intended, designed outcome from skiing. That's an unintended consequence one should be "insured" by... "insurance"... against. No?
How do you "insure" against something that's going to happen predictably when you're doing something designed to cause that very outcome
So we will cover broken legs because they arn't predictable.
But we will cover children because they are predictable.
And we won't cover abortions or contraception because they are predictable.
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