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Re:Endometriosis is an incredibly interesting disease by BobaFloutist on Saturday June 14, 2025 @12:38PM (#44277323)
There's pretty universally much more demand for doctors than supply. And insurance companies, the other major power that's, to an upsetting degree, "running the show" would love for everyone to be perfectly healthy so they can collect premiums and never pay out.
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Re:Endometriosis is an incredibly interesting disease by tbrownaw on Saturday June 14, 2025 @04:32PM (#44278638)
> so they can collect premiums and never pay out

That's not actually a thing. A very high portion of premiums always has to be paid out. Not just because the regulators said so (IIRC the requirement is a 90% or 95% loss ratio?), but because they'd be undercut by a competitor long before they got in regulatory trouble.

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