CDR: Re: Re: Re: why should it be trusted?
Ray Dillinger
bear at sonic.net
Thu Oct 19 08:43:06 PDT 2000
On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Neil Johnson wrote:
>But the Bob has no control of his risk (genetics), or at least not yet :).
>The insurance company does.
Say What?! Sorry, no insurance company has the power to say who
is and is not born with particular genetics.
>I don't have a problem with insurance companies raising rates for people who
>smoke, are overweight (cough, cough), or have high cholesterol (cough,
>cough, cough). That's behavior that can be changed.
You speak as though the insurance companies business where arbitration
of morals rather than arbitration of risks. They can't make money
arbitrating morals -- at least not without becoming religions.
Bear
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