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minus-squarephdepressed@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up5·7 months agoThat’s insurance of “last resort”, just because a state has an insurance fund, doesn’t mean the costs are anything people can pay.
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·7 months agoOr that it’s financially viable. A fire in the wrong place will wipe out the one in California, and force the state to force all the for-profit insurers to kick in money to rescue it, which will in turn result in sharply higher rates for everybody.
That’s insurance of “last resort”, just because a state has an insurance fund, doesn’t mean the costs are anything people can pay.
Or that it’s financially viable. A fire in the wrong place will wipe out the one in California, and force the state to force all the for-profit insurers to kick in money to rescue it, which will in turn result in sharply higher rates for everybody.