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Health Insurance Is Not Really Insurance

Health Insurance Is Not Really Insurance
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Let’s put on our thinking caps for a moment when it comes to this matter of insurance. It’s a business. It proposes a deal. You pay them to pay you if certain contingencies occur. You are betting that these contingencies will happen, which is why you pay. They are betting that they won’t happen, which is why they make the promise to pay.

Jeffrey A. Tucker
Jeffrey A. Tucker
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Jeffrey A. Tucker is the founder and president of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press, as well as 10 books in five languages, most recently “Liberty or Lockdown.” He is also the editor of “The Best of Ludwig von Mises.” He writes a daily column on economics for The Epoch Times and speaks widely on the topics of economics, technology, social philosophy, and culture. He can be reached at [email protected]