A Grinning DM
[CA earthquakes doom musing] don’t read if you already have anxiety about earthquakes
A Grinning DM
So, I own a house, but I haven’t been able to afford homeowners insurance
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(A decent policy is over 10k these days)
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(A year)
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And it has kept me up many a night how The Big One could hit any time, any day and maybe just demolish my house and I’ll have nothing because I have no insurance
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But hahahhahahaha guess what?
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Regular homeowners insurance in CA doesn’t even cover earthquakes anymore
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So even if I had homeowners insurance it wouldn’t do anything if an earthquake hit
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There’s just too high of a risk for home insurance companies to cover it
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You have to get a separate policy that’s just for earthquakes and it’s even more expensive
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There’s supposedly like a 5% chance of a super devastating earthquake happening here sometime in the next 25 years
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𝕒 𝕗𝕜𝕟 𝕞𝕖𝕟𝕒𝕔𝕖 👻
Princess Emily
should be illegal to not cover all the common types of damage
"yeah you can't get covered for that damage because it'll probably happen" backwards-ass logic
Princess Emily
that's why they need the insurance lame-ass insurance co.
rly good lawyer
I know I opened at my own risk but its giving me a GREAT reason to move tbh
rly good lawyer
also yeah insurance companies doing EVERYTHING EXCEPT PROVIDING INSURANCE is. like. what's the point of yall then
rly good lawyer
it's cheaper just to fix the house
Ziri✖O
Princess Emily : it should be illegal and yet here we are
Ena Nelle
Insurances are a freaking scam, I swear
A Grinning DM
Princess Emily : like I get with how insurance works that like, they know they’d just straight up go bankrupt when the Big One hits, but like it just proves to me that insurance for things like homes and medical care shouldn’t exist at all and it should be covered by the federal government.
Princess Emily
I don't think they'd go bankrupt but they'd lose more money than they want
Princess Emily
just like when we made health insurance take you without regard to "previous conditions" did they go bankrupt? no, they make too much money, but now they make slightly less
Princess Emily
but we had to force them to
Ziri✖O
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I don't need to say the joke because it tells itself and it's not a joke if it's true
A Grinning DM
I thought part of the insurance laws is that the medical insurance companies are subsidized by the government now?
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I don’t know, regardless you don’t need a middle man that exist purely to make profit off of the possibility of tragedy
A Grinning DM
It could be a tax-funded government fund and it would probably cost less in taxes than we pay now in insurance payments because it wouldn’t exist as a for-profit entity anymore
Ziri✖O
HA
Ziri✖O
medical insurance is still out to make money and doesn't care about their patients
A Grinning DM
For real
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But like, only 13% of California homeowners have Earthquake insurance
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Yeah, every once in a while I think of the Big One and I just
A Grinning DM
And is the US’s biggest contributor to the GDP
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And also is where half of the nation’s overseas trade comes in from and goes out from
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This isn’t going to just be CA’s problem when it happens
rly good lawyer
oh absolutely it will shut down half if not our entire economy
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