re: Retail ripoffs that I wish we'd reject and force change

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Health insurance - The biggest rip off of all. You have to have it but you get screwed every step of the way.

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Is it because you pay your insurance bill, and not directly to the hospitals/doctors/pharmacists/labs?

Have you ever looked at the prices that are paid to those people?

Do you think the insurance company is keeping, say, 50% of your money?

If not, and let's say they have 5 or 10% overhead . . who else is going to pay it--the government? With what?

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And I don’t know anyone who likes their health insurance. I pay $400 or so a month and still have a $3000 deductible. It absolutely deincentivizes me to go to the doc. It’s basically emergency insurance but that’s it

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Like with any insurance, you could pay higher premiums for a lower deductible.

But surely all that healthcare is so cheap you'll never reach that $3,000 dollar deductible.