Using Technology to Deepen Democracy, Using Democracy to Ensure Technology Benefits Us All
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Using Technology to Deepen Democracy, Using Democracy to Ensure Technology Benefits Us All
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"Mean, but true." -- Annalee Newitz
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At least someone said it aloud. There just can't be any (honest) competition in the insurance "market." Statistics say that x% of the people would get sick every year, whatever an insurance company does or doesn't (if it can change this rate it's in the wrong business anyway) you can't much reduce overhead, so the only way to raise your profit is to cheat, - that is deny coverage to high-risk population, yet calculate premiums as if you insured them anyway. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure that out.
Yet no one speaks about that, never. Maybe I'm just reading the wrong articles, but I honestly never heard anyone saying it aloud. Why? If it's so obvious, why "insurance market" scam is still perpetuated, and if it isn't why it isn't explained? People being afraid to kick a sacred cow and be branded "commies?"
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