I didn’t stop by the board yesterday and missed the conversation, but just noticed that Peace Man asserted, “Health insurance is just plain wrong…Profiting off people’s misery and illnesses is, at its core, immoral.”
(here)
That assertion interested me because no one challenged it.
It seems to me that insurance companies do not profit off people’s misery and illnesses. You might say they profit off the fear of misery and illnesses, but that’s not the same thing.
At its core, an insurance company makes money by offering people a way to soften the blow of misery and illness.
(Note I'm not defending when an insurance provider seeks to not pay for something they should be covering. I'm talking about the concept of insurance, not its execution.)
When someone actually gets sick, that eats into the company’s profit, so it would be more accurate to say insurance companies profit off people’s good health and well-being.
Right?
On the other hand, it could be said that for-profit health care companies (not insurance companies, but health care providers) do profit from people’s misery and illnesses. Doctors profit from people’s misery and illnesses. Nurses profit from people’s misery and illnesses. Heck, orderlies profit from people’s misery and illnesses.
Are doctors and nurses and orderlies, at their core, immoral?
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