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Oh, and anyone who pays insurance of any kind, is paying for other people. That’s how insurance works. It’s social by design.

The difference is in most cases it’s an option. If I don’t want car insurance, I don’t have to drive.

In a country like the Netherlands, you can’t tell the government “I don’t want insurance, and I wave my rights to use a hospital if I get sick”.

If that was an option, then I would be all for it, provided all the expense of government run healthcare was collected by the people participating.