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What if we do pay insurance and never get hit?
To me, both are not ideal. But somehow we as a society have accepted one as default and other as an extreme.
And the default one just happens to benefit the "shareholders" and not the everyday people.
(Btw the taxes we all pay could easily cover the costs of occasional accidents, and accidents could be reduced by proper regulations)
I mean thats the point, you are paying for reducing risk. If there is enough competition between insurers the average profit they make should be quite low.
Some comercial insurance, workers compensation specially, have something called technical excesses sharing where the insurance company give back some money if the client company had less claims that the premium paid. But that only offered to really big accounts.
And this would only make the insurance that much more expensive to everyone.
They are in different pools, it should not. It's done to reward companies with strong workers security
Conceptually at least, if you never get hit, your premiums paid for the repairs of other people that did.
That’s the idea, no one knows if they will get in an auto accident. Most people cant absorb the cost of the ramifications. Instead of every person saving the full amount to replace their car, pay for hospital stays, make someone else whole (which is a ton of money out of the economy and you know for sure a lot of people wouldn’t be responsible enough to do that) we recognize that the number of people exposed to being in an accident is less than the number of people that will be in an accident.
Everyone pays into the pool, if someone has an accident they get to take more out than they put in by design.
That’s where your money goes if you never get in an accident. Insurance companies also make a profit by managing that pool of money, and they are incentivized to only insure good drivers or collect more money from bad drivers (which is why rates go up if you get in an accident)
The alternative is that everyone starts their own savings account, one that would almost definitely cost more money, and the number of people that would just not save anything is probably pretty high because they would know that they can’t realistically save up enough.