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Originally Posted by TheDoc
You don't consume insurance... it doesn't go away and have to be replenished. More people using it, doesn't mean they have to produce more product.
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more people buying porn memberships don't make the cost go down.
if you have a paysite and tomorrow get 1 million new subscribers, are you going to drop your price? of course not. why should you?
if you don't pay your insurance premium, doesn't your insurance "go away"? don't you need to "replenish" it every month with more money?
it is a product Doc.
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Originally Posted by TheDoc
Lots of stores, restaurants, goods, etc get cheaper as more people use/buy/consume them. Internet access or phone 'net access or technology, more people buying/using, the cheaper they get to create.
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is your Internet service cheaper now than it was in the early 90s?
is your phone service cheaper now?
are the phones themselves cheaper today?
no.
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Great example is Corporations. If you have one precondition person on a small company, everyones rates skyrocket to cover the cost of the person. If the person works for a large corporation, they cost is absorbed in and the rates stay the same for the people and the corporation.
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i don't care how corporations absorb or reduce rates for individual people.
is health insurance cheaper now than it was in the past?
no.
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More people = Lower costs. A small business as higher rates, higher premiums, etc than a big business. Which may pay more overall, but per employee and employee costs are cheaper.
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so then what is your solution? have everyone on earth work for one massive corporation?
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Regs in Canada keep pill costs down.. If you want to sell them in Canada, they force the price.
I support fed provided insurance, social care, whatever you wan to call it.
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that is unfortunate.
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That's going to leave just as many people not able to get care as having them has created. We need something provided for the people that allows everyone to fairly get the same care, if they can afford it or not.
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correct, but insurance companies are not the answer.