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Re:Is the World Becoming Uninsurable? by kube-system on Friday January 17, 2025 @03:18PM (#42742825)
We have plenty of national insurance programs, including for both of those... but they're not both free and universal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Flood_Insurance_Progr...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicare_(United_States)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medicaid

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Re:Is the World Becoming Uninsurable? by ben_w on Sunday January 19, 2025 @11:44AM (#42758631)
I mean capital-N-capital-I, which is a specific thing in the UK.

It's a free as anything gets (in that it's kinda hard to distinguish from a tax), and universal (or was when I moved out of the UK): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Insurance

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