We Need More Exit Ramps From Medical Insurance

4/28/2026|Updated: 4/28/2026

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Have you bought car insurance, life insurance, or home insurance lately? If so, you know how it works. The insurer assesses your risk of asking for a payout. The risk event cannot be volitional; that is, something you do in order to get the payout. You cannot, for example, set your house on fire. To make sure, insurers have investigators.

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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]