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dandy23 | 1 year ago

Apply it to healthcare and rethink.

Not saying you are completely wrong, but I think there are other measures to stop bad driving.

The whole point of insurance is also the even out the tops and bottoms. If everyone paid their fair share cost for the insurance there would be no point with insurance. You could as well pay the damage yourself when it comes.

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mint2|1 year ago

It’s not like health.

Driving by and large is wholly controllable and should be rated on wholly controllable variables.

Not BS stuff like are you married? no? then higher rates for you.

kelnos|1 year ago

I'm not a fan of car insurance company practices, but I don't think this line of reasoning makes sense. Driving safely is directly under each individual's control. Obviously things happen that couldn't reasonably be predicted and avoided, but you can choose to drive 65mph on the highway instead of 85mph, and if that actually does correlate with lower accident rates, then I think it's fair game for insurance to charge differently based on that.

Health outcomes are... more complicated. Yes, there are things you do have control over that can make you more healthy or less healthy, but there are many confounding factors that might make you a big drain on your health insurance provider.

Of course, no way in hell am I going to let insurance companies pry into my life to that degree.