what was health insurance
@RikerGoogling A socially acceptable form of euthanasia.
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A gambling con trick like all insurance.
@RikerGoogling Imagine if the emergency medical hologram made the patient sing a song and do a silly dance, and convince an emergency accounting hologram that the expenditure of resources was justified, before beginning treatment.
@RikerGoogling Something even the Ferengi would consider an unethical scam.
@RikerGoogling Pay into a pool. If you don't get sick, you get no money back. If you do get sick, your claim for reimbursement is rejected or far short of the doctor's bill. If you don't get sick and die early, you outlive your income. Then you die anyhow.
@RikerGoogling who is big pharma who is big papa
@RikerGoogling A form of extortion. People had to pay protection money to ensure access to health care.