I pay my insurance company protection money
Funny. I wonder what other ordinary transactions could be productively and imaginatively re-imagined as sordid criminal activity?
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"... what other ordinary transactions could be re-imagined as sordid criminal activity?"
Quite a few, unless you marry the whore.
I'm a business geek so I look at things this way. I always want to be somebody’s profit - not just a cost. As long as I’m making them a profit and getting what I want, everybody is happy.
With private insurance, I am a little profit center of theirs. It is in their best interest to keep me alive and happy so I will make them a profit for many years to come. If I do get sick or hurt, they might have a bad year with me, but they can fix me up so future profits will wipe out that bad year. We both have the same goal – keep Bram alive and happy!
With government coverage, I'm a cost center. It is in their best interest to discourage me from ever seeking treatment - bureaucratic red tape and piss-poor slow service should do the trick. The sooner I die, the better. (Unless I am paying tax on an enormous income without saving anything for them to seize upon my death) Here we have radically different goals and nobody is going to be happy.