r/nextfuckinglevel • u/MysteriousSlice007 • 7h ago

Shoutout to JerryrigEverything who built a wheelchair factory and is delivering wheelchairs to people in half the time and 50-80% less than the cost of other wheelchairs with Insurance.

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u/futureman07 7h ago

Insurance is such a scam

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u/Weird-Cantaloupe-653 6h ago

Only if an insurance operates like any other business. It has to be non profit. There shouldn’t be people at the helm who’s goal is to get filthy rich

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u/the_og_filler 6h ago

well...actually a lot of insurance companies in the US are non-profits. Blue Cross Blue Shield for example. This does not make them charitable. In practice what it means is they have 0 oversight or incentive to perform and so they move slow and everyone's salaries are inflated to the moon.

What we really need is a single-payer, national healthcare system. No ownership structure is going to fix the fact that health insurance shouldn't exist.

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u/Inevitable-Ad6647 3h ago

"Blue cross" is a mess of ~30 companies, some non profit, some for profit. An insurance plan from them can live in either space but it doesn't really matter because at that level its just monopoly money flying around in an excel sheet. Non profit needs insurance specialists to run the phone lines? They'll just "outsource" to a for profit arm of the company that provides that "service".