• Delphia@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Auto insurance being mandatory makes sense in that the wronged person shouldn’t have their life destroyed because someone can’t drive and afford to replace a car.

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      2 months ago

      They didn’t say auto insurance shouldn’t be mandatory, they said that it shouldn’t be privately run

        • Phil_in_here@lemmy.ca
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          2 months ago

          You’re right. Why would I want a public entity to keep any extra money in the country when I could pay a private mego corporation to funnel it off shore?

          Why would I want to fund a public entity to keep publicly available records when I could pay a private company to deny my $1200 claim and boast $104 billion profit?

          Is it the choice I get to make between 3 companies that all run the same statistical algorithm for risk assessment and collectively agree to have the same pricing? That’s so much better than having a government beholden to it’s voters and public option control it, right?