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If it's provided by other people who are not themselves enslaved, it absolutely is. Maybe a state-subsidized one, but money is changing hands for services whether it comes out of your pocket or not.

Further, we're not talking about healthcare. We're talking about de-risking potential future financial liability by purchasing insurance.

Insurance is absolutely a business.




> If it's provided by other people who are not themselves enslaved, it absolutely is.

What a leap.

> but money is changing hands for services whether it comes out of your pocket or not.

It doesn't mean it's a business in the sense of "commercial activities"

> Further, we're not talking about healthcare.

Let me see:

- we're in the comments section to "World Health Organization: List of Essential Medicines"

- dicsussing denying people healthcare based on invasive monitoring of their activities

Yes. We're definitely talking about healthcare.

> Insurance is absolutely a business.

It definitely is. Especially in the states. And in case of healthcare it definitely shouldn't be. And it definitely shouldn't be advocated for.




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