Since becoming Sop’s partner on slabbed, it’s been a continuing challenge to apply my background in health insurance to the post-Katrina issues of property insurance. Being uninsured can be hazardous to your health lightened my load today.
...insurance is not just a luxury. It can be a matter of life and death.
While a lack of health insurance can literally be a matter of life and death, the meaning can be both literal and figurative when applied to property issues of property insurance – evident in the survey data collected in Ocean Springs as well as in the increase in suicides on the Coast – an increase similar to that I suspect will also surface in violent death rates and/or incidence of physical violence.
A better understanding of the interrelated nature of physical health and financial health – and the differences in the way these two different systems of insurance function – is fundamental to a solution for the current health care financing crisis and the growing crisis in the property insurance industry. Continue reading “Idealogy defeating reason”