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Matt Levine wrote a little on the perverse incentives of insurers in this case: "This creates weird incentives. [Insurers] want the risk to be big and dangerous and salient. [Insurers] want everyone to worry about it all the time, so they [get] lots of money for premiums. Then ideally [insurers] help clients avoid the risk, so that [Insurers] can keep more of the premiums, but basically it is a volume business and [insurers would] rather collect more premiums and pay more claims than have fewer of each."

Scroll down about 2/3rd to the "Insurance" heading for his complete comments: https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2019-08-27/the-li...




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