Chapter Seven

Health insurance is brought up again in this chapter and shows how the reasoning behind what you pay is much deeper then what meets my teenaged naive eye. Knowing exactly why we pay what we do is an important thing to know by the time we are adults getting health insurance for ourselves. With insurance, there are really two parties trying to benefit themselves as much as possible. The average citizen, and the insurance company. The insurance company sets you up to pay more then most people need, with the possibility that something much worse may happen. A quote that stuck out to me was "You are not worried about average outcomes; you are worried about the worst things that could possibly happen to you" (153). The risks that humans face just living their lives everyday are enough to make most people see the need for this possibly over expensive health insurance.