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> ...perhaps by people like yourself who have the gall to compare 100% legal businesses to Nazi concentration camps.

At the time of Nazi rulership in Germany concentration camps were 100% legal.

OK but it's still an incredible stretch to compare murders of prisoners to some company that isn't giving you all the wildly expensive benefits you think you're entitled to. There is also a big difference because most Germans were unaware of what concentration camps were doing, whereas everyone with basic awareness knows what an insurance company is and can choose to not do business with them.

Health insurance is a modern invention. People lived for thousands of years without it, and even in recent times most of the world does not have it. If you don't like insurance, you have the option of saving and investing your money to pay for whatever you can. Some people cannot afford to pay their expenses by saving, but those people cannot afford insurance either. Someone has to pay for whatever is on offer. I don't think insurance should be used for common health care, only for catastrophic things that you can't anticipate. Imagine how expensive car insurance would be if you insisted on having it pay for oil, tires, carwashes, etc. That is how people treat health insurance and it's stupid.

> some company that isn't giving you all the wildly expensive benefits you think you're entitled to

nice strawman

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