“Unfortunately, the coverage you paid for doesn’t extend to any situation where there is water in, on, or around your home,” said Pat Treacy, a claims adjuster at Countrywide Mutual Insurance who informed the Colemans that their policy had actually been voided the moment they first filled their bathtub or ran water from their sinks. “It’s industry standard, I’m afraid. Houses just aren’t meant to get wet. No insurance company anywhere would take on that kind of liability. If it’s possible to prove the house remained dry during the storm, and it just sort of fell down on its own, then maybe a case could be made for approving your claim.” Treacy went on to wish the Coleman family well and said he would keep an eye out for them on GoFundMe.
A reminder that insurance is just profit driven socialism in a mask.
It’s more calculated betting, even if done at a government scale.
How is it socialism??
It isn’t at all, but apparently any form of price/cost distribution is indistinguishable from any democratically ‘owned’/managed/controlled productive enterprise.
Using this logic, a giant conglomocorp that uses 10% of the profits from one line of business to internally subsidize an expanding line of business hoping to gain a monopoly there, is socialist.
Just throw on a subscription model where some users barely use the service and others use it maximally, if you need the analogy to be more accurate.
What would actually make an insurance company socialist is if it were a worker owned co-op, where all workers voted on large company policy changes, hell maybe even include the policy holders in those votes too!.. or if the entire thing were a government agency in a faaaar more direct, transparent and accountable democracy than what exists in the US currently.