Police Are Getting DNA Data from People Who Think They Opted Out

Re:Police Are Getting DNA Data from People Who Think They Op... by coldtea on Sunday August 20, 2023 @09:21AM (#37198874)

There's insurance from the point of "how we as an insurance company maximize profits" and insurance as "how we, as society, support a scheme to provide a net against various risks".

Societies have no reason to ensure insurance companies maximize their profits. In fact, briberry and lobbying aside, they have all the reason to regulate them for modest profits and wider spread safety net.

Thus health issues seen from DNA should be regulated to remain an unknown risk as far as insurance premiums go.

Except if somebody is more concerned about maximum insurance company profits, than for public health. In that case, can they suggest an Ayn Rand book for someone new to the author?

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Re:Police Are Getting DNA Data from People Who Think They Op... by memefrog on Sunday August 20, 2023 @05:43PM (#37203180)

You are dreadfully confused. This has nothing to do with maximising health insurance company profits.

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Re:Police Are Getting DNA Data from People Who Think They Op... by timschmidt on Monday August 21, 2023 @10:31AM (#37210050)

I think everyone's heard that one before.

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Re:Police Are Getting DNA Data from People Who Think They Op... by memefrog on Monday August 21, 2023 @11:19AM (#37210757)

What does this even mean? Stop assuming everyone in the world thinks the same way you do and has the same pants-on-head-retarded hatred of insurance companies.

Guess what? Sane people in sane countries recognise that insurance isnt the best mechanism for accomplishing every social outcome. In fact, it is terrible at doing that for healthcare. So we dont use it that way. Instead, we do the sane thing of taxing people.

Instead you insane parochial exceptionalists think "hurr durr ill force everyone to buy insurance and ban insurance from taking into account people's health, basically making it not insurance". Then it confuses stupid people like YOU into not knowing what the term means.

Please microwave your balls. You are too stupid to be allowed to reproduce.

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